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Doakes Sunday: Findings Of Fact

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Another company leaving Minnesota for Wisconsin. This one is probably more about marketing to its customer base than taxes; still . . . . . Dayton -1, Walker +1.

unlike the date and administrations job numbers, the number of “companies leaving Minnesota” is getting revised downward anytime soon.

In unrelated news I see that Chuck Knoblauch is accused of domestic assault, therefore the Twins have cancelled his induction into the Twins hall of fame.
I don’t care a whit for sports heroes, but the endless manipulation for PC is really tiresome. Not to mention that if this happened when he was on the team and useful for their pennant rally, they would be on the soap box reminding us that the justice system needs time to work, that a person is innocent until proven guilty, etc.
I did not read any of the story, or see it on the news. Don’t have a clue what evidence, if any, is involved. But PC sucks.
Joe Doakes

it’s Minnesota. “People” – ha ha – accused of domestic abuse will be assured a speedy trial and immediate execution.

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10 responses to “Doakes Sunday: Findings Of Fact”

  1. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    That was a interesting defense of the “Wisconsin is just doing fine” meme. http://econbrowser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/may14pix0.jpg

  2. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    Unfortunately, Governor Dayton was the first to call “dibbs” on the job creation/ positive unemployment numbers issue. Consequently, it is difficult to convince others, including the undecided, that it isn’t true.

    I do wonder, though, if Governor Dayton’s claims of a positive state economy, and for that matter, Obama’s positive national economic claims, are not so much a political success as they are just part of the normal course of economic events. Not unlike a doctor claiming success for his/her patients’ natural healing process, or like the rooster who feels that his crowing forces the sun to rise?

  3. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    I also heard that a number of MPLS area democratic law makers are demanding that Zygi make certain that the investigation of alleged homophobic comments within his (their) team is completed thoroughly.

    They also want the punishment for the offenses be suitably severe if (when) the investigation concludes that the allegations are true, and they also demand that the findings be made public.

    I guess when you by a team a stadium, you get to call the shots …

  4. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    I’m surprised GOP candidates aren’t flogging the taxpayer subsidized “stadium” issue. More recently, Dayton made a wise (political) decision to advocate early release of MNsure premiums. This will remove a political issue the GOP had been using against Dayton. The GOP had better hope those premiums come in much higher than estimated.

  5. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    I’m sure our DFL legislators will switch their investigation to Coach Priefer’s comments just as soon as they finish and provide their full report on Rep. Ryan Winkler’s “Uncle Tom” comments.

  6. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    “The GOP had better hope those premiums come in much higher than estimated”

    No. The GOP had better hope that the first release of the numbers is honest.

    Unlike everything else about MNSure, ever.

  7. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    To comment on the Twins thing, then they’re going to take Kirby out of the Twins Hall of Fame for his shenanigans? I’m guessing “no”.

    And regarding Wisconsin vs. Minnesota, Emery’s source commits the classic error of a monovariant analysis of a clearly multivariant system. Urban service industries in CA and MN and quite frankly DC’s subsidies of states working with Dear Leader can throw the stats off quite a bit. Moreover, California’s overall unemployment rate as of April was an unenviable 7.8%, vs. 4.7% for Minnesota, 4.8% for Kansas, and 5.8% for Wisconsin. California shined because of patronage and because they had nowhere to go but up.

  8. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    There are several on the Twins Hall of Fame list that had issues (allegedly) that could have been considered anything but PC.

  9. Powhatan Mingo Avatar
    Powhatan Mingo

    “California’s overall unemployment rate as of April was an unenviable 7.8%, vs. 4.7% for Minnesota, 4.8% for Kansas, and 5.8% for Wisconsin.”

    But . . . but . . . that can’t be right, Bikebubba! Herr Doktor Professor Krugman says that Cali is going gangbusters and leaving Kansas in Great-depression style dust!

    “f tax increases are causing a major flight of jobs from California, you can’t see it in the job numbers. Employment is up 3.6 percent in the past 18 months, compared with a national average of 2.8 percent; at this point, California’s share of national employment, which was hit hard by the bursting of the state’s enormous housing bubble, is back to pre-recession levels.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/opinion/paul-krugman-california-tax-left-coast-rising.html

    Krugman has a Nobel prize! For economics! I hope you aren’t implying that Herr Doktor Professor would play games with statistics in a partisan manner!

  10. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Krugman’s analysis is a great example of addressing the what without addressing the why. Yes, highly trained workforce upside down in their mortgages and unable to leave…..yes, they’re going to be an attraction for some tech companies as soon as the market is good enough to justify the business case.

    And there we go….here’s Wells Fargo on it. Exactly what I said.

    https://www08.wellsfargomedia.com/downloads/pdf/com/insights/economics/regional-reports/CaliforniaEmploymentReport_April2014.pdf

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