Mark Dayton is to money like John McCain was to houses:

Luke Hellier explains Dayton’s South Dakota trusts – which save him a ton in taxes – and asks some questions:

1. In your “Deficit Solution” plan (item #3), you criticize snowbirds who maintain residences outside of Minnesota for six months and a day to avoid certain taxes, but why is it okay that your trust funds maintain residence outside of Minnesota 12 months a year?
2. Have you ever asked your family members or the executor of your South Dakota trust funds to move these trusts to Minnesota? If not, why not?
3. Have you ever asked your family members or the executor of your South Dakota trust funds whether you can divest? If not, why not?
4. Will you ask for the release of the tax returns for your South Dakota trust funds?
5. What tax benefits do you derive from your South Dakota trusts in comparison with the tax liability you would have were they in Minnesota?
6. How much in Minnesota taxes have you avoided paying the state in your lifetime because of these arrangements? If you cannot answer this question, would you be willing to allow an independent referee to calculate it before Election Day?
7. Can you explain your holdings in the well-known tax havens of the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands that are listed on your Senate Financial Disclosure reports?
8. Would you be willing to gift to the state of Minnesota all monies you would have been required to pay had your trusts been established in Minnesota?

I’m picturing a Scrooge McDuck kind of vibe here:

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