{"id":10876,"date":"2010-05-12T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10876"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:59:44","slug":"all-hail-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10876","title":{"rendered":"All Hail The King!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL on Monday voted for an epic tax hike (disguised, per usual, as negotiation) in the middle of an epic recession\/depression.<\/p>\n<p>The answer &#8211; the <em>real <\/em>answer, anyway &#8211; is to toss every single DFLer responsible for this vote out this November.<\/p>\n<p>My friend and longtime radio colleague King Banaian is trying to do just that up in House District 15B in Saint Cloud, against Larry &#8220;Haw&#8221; Haws.\u00a0\u00a0 King <a href=\"http:\/\/kingforhouse.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/statement-on-dfl-budget-balancing-bill.html\">responds to his opponent&#8217;s vote for the tax hike<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Last night my opponent voted to increase taxes on small businesses and what he considers wealthy Minnesotans,&#8221; Banaian said.  &#8220;The last Economic Update from the Finance Department cited consumer confidence and sentiment being &#8216;mired&#8217; at low levels and &#8216;lingering employment concerns, slow wage growth, and tight credit are likely to inhibit household spending until 2011.&#8217;  Even if you believe Minnesotans don&#8217;t pay enough, this is a terrible time to raise taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we do pay enough.  The DFL bill that Rep. Haws voted for would <strong>give Minnesota the 4th highest marginal tax rate in the country<\/strong> on incomes of $200,000. <strong> Higher rates in California have done nothing to cure their budget problems<\/strong>.  Why does Larry Haws think this is a good example to emulate?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The answer to every DFL problem is to look at small businesses as an ATM from which they can cover their need for more money.  They have enough; the real need in Minnesota is to reduce spending, not raise taxes.  Rep. Haws had the opportunity to balance the budget by ratifying Governor Pawlenty&#8217;s spending reductions but voted against that. <strong> When I get to St. Paul, we will set priorities that do not ask already-generous Minnesotans for more<\/strong>,&#8221; Banaian concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or as another conservative candidate might say, we need to stick the budget in a vise and &#8220;drill baby, drill&#8221;&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll await word from the Strib on exactly how King&#8217;s position is &#8220;extreme&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letfreedomringblog.com\/?p=7823\">Gary @ LFR<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL on Monday voted for an epic tax hike (disguised, per usual, as negotiation) in the middle of an epic recession\/depression. The answer &#8211; the real answer, anyway &#8211; is to toss every single DFLer responsible for this vote out this November. My friend and longtime radio colleague King Banaian is trying to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2,72],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","category-mngop","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10878,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions\/10878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}