1/ Just a few numbers today:

Property taxes on the Target store I believe was trashed totaled $584,000 this year. The company had paid half of those taxes so far this year. That leaves $292,000 to pay this year for a business that was heavily damaged.

2/ The Arby's: $44,421, with $22,210 still owing on a destroyed building.
The Autozone: $54,643, with $27,321 due.
Some locals -
7-Sigma Inc (Destroyed by fire): $1,763, $881 owed
Anthony's Pipe & Cigar Lounge (Heavily looted): $12,030 total, all due.

3/ This is just a few among the 220 in Minneapolis alone.

I'd do more, but Hennepin County's appraisal site kind of sucks. These businesses also provided toward Minnesota's 6.875% sales tax, employed people, whose salaries provided toward the state's 5.35%, 6.80%, 7.85% and ...

4/ 9.85% tax rates. (Yes likely mostly the lower end for lower salaries but it contributes.) Then, of course, those employees go home and directly or indirectly put a hunk of their paychecks toward property taxes all over again, though in smaller amounts.

My point?

5/ These companies, their employees, they paid all that money for services. Services I am told nobody but the government can provide. Muh roads, muh fire fighters, muh police.

They paid for security - Is security what they received? I'd say not. I'd hope you agree.

6/ Instead we'll get that "they're insured" (privately) or just "evil big corporations" as excuses for their being damaged or even destroyed due to the government failing to properly protect George Floyd, and then failing again to provide the protection those companies paid for.

7/ What price will the government in Minneapolis pay? What price will any of them pay?

They've lost a precinct building, perhaps some other damage to government buildings... that will cost... who?

There will be two possible outcomes from this all.

8/ The local government will either increase taxes (more cost to those taxpayers) to rebuild and increase services, or it'll cut services while not really cutting expenditures much in order to rebuild the 3rd precinct building. It'll maybe shuffle personnel...

9/ around pointlessly. Anyone wanting to stay to live, to do business, will pay the cost in either scenario.

Rinse and repeat for anywhere else this happens. All you can do is leave to somewhere that hasn't happened, and hope it doesn't.

10/ The government of Minneapolis won't collapse. It will just charge others for its mistakes.

Government is like the house at a casino...only it's ALWAYS playing the game with your money. Because it has none of its own.

11/ Not sure what else to say. It sucks. It's going to continue to suck.