Special Report: Minnesota's $18 Billion Dollar Corruption Tax!

$18 billion. Maybe $20 billion. However you size it, the accusation is the same: Minnesota taxpayers may have been charged an invisible “corruption tax” while money meant for children, seniors, veterans, and people with special needs went somewhere else. 

We walk through why this matters beyond politics, because the stakes are painfully practical: meals that never arrived, services that never showed up, and families who keep paying while answers stay out of reach.

We start with the story that kicked the alarm off a supposed daycare site that didn’t look like a daycare at all and the simplest question imaginable: where are the kids? From there, we dig into government accountability basics that should be nonnegotiable in any public program: receipts, bookkeeping, inspections, audits, and outcomes you can verify. If officials can write checks year after year without documentation, fraud and abuse aren’t surprising, they’re predictable.

We also talk about the tactics that derail honest oversight, like calling scrutiny “politically motivated” or trying to pin corruption on one group. Our view is straightforward: fraud is indiscriminate, and everyone pays for it.

We close with the money side “clawbacks,” real-world recovery, and what it looks like to demand transparency before the same pattern spreads state by state. If this hits a nerve, subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review so more people start asking the most basic question: where are the receipts?

• Why a strange daycare visit becomes a fraud alarm
• How missing receipts and weak audits enable repeated payouts
• Who gets harmed when public funds meant for care and food vanish
• Why we see anger at basic accountability questions as a major red flag
• How politicians try to flip the story and dodge responsibility
• The “real math” framing of scale, incentives, and influence
• What "clawbacks" mean and whether stolen funds can be recovered

Pray for Minnesota, pray for America, pray that we can end corruption, abuse, and fraud

Transcript

A Warning About Minnesota Taxes

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello, my friends. This is the Ken Mercer Show, and I pray for people who give so much and sacrifice so much and to find out that you've been cheated. I'm asking the question: Is there a $18 billion Minnesota corruption tax? Is this a political comment? No. Because you look throughout history, who do you think wrote all the rules for accounting and finance, for always having receipts and double checking in the Bible says to avoid even the appearance of evil? Those are people of Judeo-Christian values. So my Christian friends know exactly what I'm talking about, and we expect government officials to hold a higher standard. I personally believe that if you're a government official, you have a double judgment. God puts you in a place of authority, you're held to a higher standard.

The Daycare That Had No Kids

SPEAKER_00 0:50

What has happened in Minnesota? It began with a simple photographer, independent journalist, went to a daycare center, and he noticed that the daycare center was spelled wrong. Learning didn't have the R. He went to this building, looked strange, went to this metal door, opened the door, and people started freaking out. He had a camera there. And he asked, Where are all the children for your daycare, the money you've been getting all these years? There weren't any children there. And all the people inside were hiding their faces and didn't want the camera there. That's not a good sign. And that's where it began. And one by one looking at programs, and of course, government officials came out and they were mad trying to flip the story. You're looking for something that's not here. This is politically motivated and it's not as bad as you say it is. Well, I call it calf, corruption, abuse, fraud. And the people who look it up, I call them calf farmers. What does a farmer do? They dig up dirt. And if you're out there looking for corruption, abuse, and fraud, you're digging up dirt in a governmental sense. And you're asking for things like receipts and accounting records and books and audits. And you're finding that some government officials just write the check. They don't have a receipt. Oh, you got two million last year, you get two million this year. Oh, you need four million? I'm making some of this stuff up. Or am I? Am I? What have you heard?

Who Gets Hurt When Money Vanishes

SPEAKER_00 2:14

So the problem is that there's a corruption tax, and it wasn't one billion, it wasn't five, it wasn't ten. Now they're saying 18 to 20 billion with a B in just the last few years of tax money. And the sad part about it, during COVID and after COVID, little children who were meant to have food, you were paid extra tax whenever you pumped gas, whenever you went to the grocery store or to a restaurant, you paid your real estate taxes, whatever you're doing, bought clothes, you paid a tax because you believed you were helping the people of Minnesota. And we've got children who didn't get fed. The money went somewhere else. We've got children who had autism, other kids with special needs. What happened to that money? We have veterans in Minnesota who were homeless or need special services, they didn't get it. We had other people who had special needs, did not get it. We have elderly who worked all your life in Minnesota and paid your taxes to help other people. And at this point in life, the elderly are not asking for a handout. They're asking for a hand up. Maybe help with rent or maybe some of the utilities during the cold winters or food. And it's not there for you. Or maybe you have to wait at the end of the line because somebody else is getting that money. And now we find that some of this money was wired to other countries. And the rumor is countries that hate America, they hate people of Jewish Christian values. Maybe that's why they don't like audits and reviews and bookkeeping and receipts. This is really sad, and we need to pray for Minnesota, pray for all the people. You have paid a corruption tax. That your taxes and so much of your pain went to corruption, abuse, and fraud. And that is just

Simple Questions That Trigger Anger

SPEAKER_00 4:06

so wrong. Let me tell you a quick story. My mom used to always tell me when people of authority, when you ask honest, simple questions like, where's the receipt? What did this money go to? Why do you want two million now? You wanted one million last year. Why do you want 10 million now, you wanted two million last year? How many kids did you feed? Do we have pictures of that? Can we do an inspection of a daycare or other facility? My mom used to always say, when you ask people in authority simple, honest questions, which in a place called America, you're allowed. In socialist countries and communist countries, you are not allowed to ask simple, honest questions. Let's be fair. In a socialist communist country, you are not allowed to ask the government simple, honest questions. So when I hear these people who call themselves socialist and you're asking them easy questions and they're mad, that raises a flag. And my mom would say, when they get mad with those simple questions, something's wrong. But when they start screaming at you, cursing at you, threatening you, she said it means two things. It means somebody's lying and somebody's hiding something. And we repeat that. When people of authority, in this case politicians, when you ask which in a free market, free enterprise country you're allowed to ask, again, you can't do that in a socialist country. But when you ask simple, honest questions like, where are the receipts, where are the reviews, where are the inspections, where are the audits, and they get mad. And they start screaming and cursing at you and threatening you, it means two things. Somebody's lying and somebody's hiding something. So we need to pray for Minnesota. Because a lot of good people out there have hurt. There are a lot of great people in Minnesota, God bless them, children and adults who were not fed the way they were supposed to be. There are people that needed health care or had special needs or veterans' needs did not get it. There were elderly and veterans, others who needed a home, needed a place to be, or voucher for food, or voucher for rent. They didn't get it because somebody else got it, or the money went somewhere

Politicians Try To Flip Blame

SPEAKER_00 6:16

else. We need to pray for Minnesota. And one politician made a comment. He goes, You're saying that all people of Minnesota are crooks. What? Why do politicians always try to flip a story? No one said that. We're praying for the people of Minnesota. And then someone said, Well, you think that it's only brown people doing this. That's racist. Because let me tell you, corruption, abuse, and fraud, it's indiscriminate. Corruption, abuse, and fraud, $18 billion that went against everybody in Minnesota. Every biological man and biological woman in Minnesota was impacted. Every person of every age, every demographic was impacted. Every person, the color of your skin, no matter your ethnic ethnicity, corruption, abuse, and fraud hit everyone. Everyone. So in politicians try to flip the story and say this is politically motivated. Well, again, you had a job to do, and by your own words, people gave you the review and oversight. And I can't even give you an F, an F. See, F might mean you got 50% done. You didn't even get that. And year by year, what happened when the first million was missing? The first billion? The first five billion, the first ten billion, and now we're here. It could be as much as 18 to 20 billion dollars.

The Math Behind Mass Influence

SPEAKER_00 7:43

Now let me leave you with one thing. And you're not gonna like this. But I use my accounting mind, I use real math, not that common core math that some of the socialists pushed on our kids. But let's say you had 10,000 families that you wanted to influence, politically influence. You wanted I'm making this up. No accusations. But if I gave 10,000 families over the years $100,000 each, do your math. Again, real math, not common core garbage, but real math, $10,000 families times $100,000 would be $1 billion. $10 billion would be $100,000 families, et cetera. So there's a question: who is getting this money, free money, that's meant for the children, it's meant for the elderly, it's meant for the veterans, it's meant for special needs, it's meant for the people, but it's gone. It's been stolen. And is the government ever gonna

Clawbacks, Accountability, And Prayer

SPEAKER_00 8:50

claw back? Claw back is a financial term where you go into somebody's records. Hey, you took $20 million, you still have $10 million in your bank account, we're taking $10 million back. And we're gonna put that in a fund for the people. So there you are, my friends. Pray for Minnesota. A lot of people, men and women, children, veterans, elderly, special needs, and many, many more have been hurt because money meant for you. You paid an $18 billion corruption tax that went somewhere else, and I don't know if that money's ever gonna come back to you. And we have politicians right now who do not want you asking questions, which means it's gonna go on. Unless somebody raises the flag and said somebody's lying, somebody's hiding something, we need to start asking basic, honest, simple questions, which is again a Judeo-Christian value. Basic, honest, simple questions to avoid any perception of evil. This is Ken Mercer, the Ken Mercer Show. This is a different kind of news report, but pray for Minnesota because here's my warning. It doesn't stop in Minnesota. We're gonna see state by state, we've had bureaucrats who, again, if you're an elected official, I believe you have a double judgment because God puts you in that place. There's a double judgment. If you're an elected official and you've been signing checks without any kind of inspection, without any kind of review, without any kind of audit, without looking at receipts. And may God forgive you. Because you're part of the problem, because you put a corruption tax on the people of Minnesota. The good people of Minnesota deserve better than that. And I'm afraid we're gonna find more and more throughout America. Pray for Minnesota, pray for America, pray that we can end corruption, abuse, and fraud, that we can hold a higher standard that God wants, the higher standard that God demands. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen.