Vicky Heller writes:
Judging by results, the NRP is a colossal failure. Why do I think so?
Because City debts are skyrocketing and property taxes are TRIPLING!!!!!!
And services that SHOULD be provided by local government are disappearing.
The trouble with this claim is that it in no way makes clear what the connection is between the NRP and the problems it points to. Correlation is not causation, as they say, and Vicky Heller does not at all show that the Minneapolis problems she points to are the results of the NRP. I agree that we've got problems, but it is not at all clear to me that the NRP is the cause, or even a main cause, of them, which is what Vicky Heller here seems to claim without evidence. (This is an error I have seen her commit a number of times.) I am skeptical of her claim, though I have no settled view of the NRP, because, for instance, there are a number of other municipalities in Minnesota that have rising property taxes and disappearing services that do not, as best as I can tell, have parallels to NRP. That means the NRP cannot be the cause of their parallel problems. What do you say to them, Vicky Heller? For my part, I begin to look at a state government controlled in no small part by a Party with some serious problems of its own, and a governor with national political ambitions on top of those problems.
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