Easy to be generous with other people's money

As he was ascending in the "Veepstakes" in the summer of 2024, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz uncorked this hot take. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a top VP contender for Kamala Harris, says socialism is actually just "neighborliness." pic.twitter.com/xISVQSxIUv

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) July 30, 2024

In the nearly 21 months since that clip, it's been revealed that state of Minnesota taxpayers have been defrauded to the tune of billions of dollars. As such, that vapid statement takes on a whole new connotation. Nevertheless, Walz continues to spin it as basically erring on the side of generosity, as he did in an interview with prog boot licker late night host Jimmy Kimmel. 

KIMMEL: Did it take an extraordinarily long time for you to know what was happening with fraud?

WALZ: It happens in other states...Trump, Trump, Trump...we are a generous state. pic.twitter.com/JWCihDmaFO

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 23, 2026

With a significant decrease in adjusted gross income over the past 5+ years due negative net migration, that "generosity" is not going to be sustainable much longer. 

MN State Rep. Max Rymer (R-North Branch) breaks it down further. 

I want you to know “We are a generous state” are the most warped words in Minnesota government. And I hear them all the time.

(On Wednesday), as we are in the thick of session, Governor Walz decided to take a trip to California and do the Jimmy Kimmel show. When asked about fraud, he blamed the federal government and asserted that Minnesota is a "generous state" with our programs.

 

First, you can’t be “generous” with other people’s money.

Second, to the extent that you feel entitled to use other people’s money - you must be judicious and careful with it. Tim Walz and Minnesota Democrats are not, have not been, and are incapable of being judicious and careful. After everything that’s happened the past 5 years, Democrats will still tell you we have a “revenue” problem (aka we don’t tax enough).

“Generosity” in Minnesota government simply has meant taking as much as you can get away with from people who produce in your state (forcing many of them to leave), in order to fund ill-defined programs with little-to-no oversight, so you can justify your own political existence… even when it inevitably gets discovered a ton of the money went to fraudsters anyway.

That’s not generosity. It’s self-destruction.

More specifically, the problem with socialism is, as Margaret Thatcher so brilliantly stated, eventually you run out of other people's money. 

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