CRABBY: Tax Day: Minnesota Nightmare Tax Stories
Garage Logic
Gamut Podcast Network
4.7 β’ 3.8K Ratings
ποΈ 15 April 2026
β±οΈ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this raw and eye-opening conversation in The Crabby Coffee Shop, Shannon Lausten β owner of Hub 71, the beloved restaurant and convenience store in Sebeka, Minnesota β sits down to share the harsh reality facing small businesses in rural America. What starts as a local tax issue quickly becomes a conversation about survival, community decline, and the real-world impact of government spending on everyday entrepreneurs who are just trying to keep the lights on and people employed in their small towns.
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| 0:00.0 | Take from one hand, then take from the other hand, then snoop around our belongings and take a cut of our assets, punish us with license tab renewal fees if we have the gall to drive a kind of new vehicle, then drive businesses and residents out of the state, |
| 0:22.0 | then raise their property taxes to punish us for them leaving, leaving, |
| 0:26.3 | and then throw billions of dollars at fraudulent nonprofits run by pirates from miserable little |
| 0:31.7 | war-torn hellholes and refuse to admit it was your policies that allowed the wrongdoing. |
| 0:36.3 | Do I have it correct so far, Jake, Jake, Cole? |
| 0:39.5 | And then elect community socialist, activist, ninkum poops with no clue as to how the world works to place more taxes on us. |
| 0:47.6 | Am I still on the right track, Jay Coles? |
| 0:49.6 | You're summon it up better than I can't ever quit. |
| 0:51.5 | This is why we call it the crabby coffee shop. |
| 0:54.9 | We are being conned by people that are not representing us. |
| 0:59.2 | They are ruling over us. |
| 1:01.3 | And I, for one, am not happy about it. |
| 1:03.3 | And you know what today is? |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.3 | That day you hate the most. |
| 1:09.2 | I took my winnings. I took my winnings from the feds and I hate the most. I took my winnings. |
| 1:11.6 | I took my winnings from the feds and I paid the state. |
| 1:15.3 | And let me tell you something, they had that cash check. |
| 1:18.4 | I don't even think that check made it into the building. |
| 1:21.1 | I think they met it at the curb and went right to the bank and cashed it. |
| 1:24.6 | When you owe them money? |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah. |
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