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Profiling the Legislature: Sen. Chris DeLaForest.
Byline: Frank Jossi
Chris DeLaForest (49A) has been thinking a lot lately about taxes and asking a disarmingly simple question: Why does the state tax property? He paints a hypothetical scenario about a blue collar couple living on 20 acres they bought two decades ago in Ham Lake, a city in his district. The property today is worth at least $2 million, making the taxes unaffordable to a family of modest means. "I wonder if Minnesota just shouldn't stop taxing property," he says. "Property taxation is absolutely divorced from the notion that a person should pay taxes in some relationship to their wealth. Seeing property as a proxy for wealth comes from an agrarian society that doesn't exist anymore." That's the kind of thinking DeLaForest, 38, has come to be known for during his three terms as a conservative Republican from Anoka…
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