Outdated Minnesota liquor laws brought Jon Kreidler’s Tattersall Distilling to River Falls, Wis. Gov. Tim Walz’s new taxes over the past year have made Kreidler look like a genius.
Sweeping tax increases, passed last year after Democrats got control of both houses of the Legislature, while the state sat on a COVID-fueled $17.5 billion surplus, has Minnesotans, particularly along the border counties with Wisconsin, apoplectic.
As the Badger Institute pointed out earlier this month, Minnesota has been bleeding population and revenue for several years with its high tax and regulatory structure.
A closer and more recent look shows details of the bleeding. As of 2022 U.S. Census data, the No. 1 destination for Minnesotans was Wisconsin, with 19,307 relocating that year. In that same year, 18,702 Wisconsinites moved to Minnesota, many of them to the Twin Cities, according to the Census data.
