The Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, has announced an 11.3% property tax increase on homeowners to help close the city’s budget shortfall caused mostly by all the fraud and welfare leeching done by immigrants, many of which are illegal.
This comes amid criticism over his handling of alleged large-scale fraud involving daycare and home health care programs, with claims that billions of dollars were stolen.
Falling commercial property values downtown are pushing more of the tax burden onto residential properties.
Critics argue that an influx of immigrants reliant on public assistance and committing fraud has contributed to the city’s financial struggles and decline in its downtown area.
They also point to federal prosecutors’ statements that as much as half of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds for 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018 may have been stolen, and see the tax hike as a way to recoup some of that loss.
