Tim Walz’s Shell Game: How the Governor is Forcing Minnesota Homeowners to Pay His Tab
By Phillip C. Parrish
2026 Republican Candidate for Governor of Minnesota
Retired U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer | Fraud Whistleblower | Lifelong Minnesotan
Ramsey County just announced a proposed 9.75% property tax increase for 2026. That’s not a rounding error. That’s not inflation. That’s the sound of Tim Walz’s unfunded mandates landing on your doorstep like a mob collector with brass knuckles.
Let’s speak plainly: Walz isn’t raising your taxes himself because he’s too clever for that. He’s outsourcing the dirty work to the counties. He passes sweeping new programs in St. Paul—mostly funneling cash to his favorite nonprofits and DFL-aligned “community partners”—then conveniently forgets to fund them. Counties are handed the bill with a smile and a middle finger. They have exactly two choices: cut essential services or jack up your property taxes to cover the difference. Guess which one they pick when the sheriff and the snowplow driver still need paychecks?
This isn’t incompetence. Incompetence is random. This is deliberate, systematic, and malicious.
In his February 2025 budget, Walz quietly shifted 5% of disability waiver costs onto the counties—roughly $100 million statewide that used to come from the state’s general fund. A few months later he dumped another $200+ million in human services costs the same way. Sherburne County alone is now on the hook for an extra $6 million they never budgeted for. Kandiyohi, Wright, every rural county you can name—they’re all drowning in compliance costs and new mandates with zero new dollars from St. Paul.
Ramsey County’s 9.75% spike isn’t some rogue decision by local liberals (though they’re happy to play along). It’s the direct, predictable result of Walz treating county governments like ATM machines for his political slush funds. Your rising property-tax bill is the hidden Walz tax he’ll never have to put his name on.
And let’s not pretend this money is going to pave roads or keep criminals locked up. A huge chunk gets laundered through unaccountable nonprofits—many of them the same players caught in the Feeding Our Future scandal, the COVID relief theft, the daycare fraud bonanza. Same grift, new envelope. The only difference is now they’ve figured out how to make YOU pay for it twice: once at the state level when the budget passes, and again at the county level when the mandate bill comes due.
This is racketeering with extra steps.
Malice or incompetence? At this point the distinction is academic. When a governor repeatedly uses the same trick to pick the pockets of Minnesota homeowners while shielding his political allies from accountability, we’re long past “oops.”
Minnesotans have had enough. We are not an endless piggy bank for the DFL crime family and their nonprofit bag-men. Property taxes are the one tax you can’t escape by moving to Florida—yet Walz has turned them into the growth industry of his administration.
Here’s my promise as your next Governor:
1. Every unfunded mandate gets repealed or fully funded—on day one.
2. Full forensic audit of every dollar that has flowed from state or county coffers into nonprofits since 2019.
3. Hard freeze on property tax levies until the looting stops and the thieves are prosecuted.
4. Criminal referral for any public official—elected or appointed—who knowingly participated in this shell game.
The eviction notice has already been drafted. November 2026 is just the delivery date.
Tim Walz wanted to “shift burdens” to the counties. Fine. In 2026 Minnesota is shifting one burden right back—straight out of the governor’s mansion.
See you at the polls.
Phillip C. Parrish
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