{"id":13314,"date":"2010-09-07T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2010-09-07T11:17:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:17:26","slug":"the-dayton-dust-bowl-the-law-is-what-i-say-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13314","title":{"rendered":"The Dayton Dust Bowl: “The Law Is What I<\/i> Say It Is!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The paragraph in Dayton’s budget plan is a subtle one:<\/p>\n

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3. Eliminate tax loopholes, such as the one allowing “Snowbirds” to live outside Minnesota for six months and one day of the year, and pay no personal income taxes in\u00a0this state. I would ensure that anyone who spends a significant amount of time in Minnesota pays taxes in Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the State of Minnesota is going to define what a “significant” period of time is. and stake a claim to income, property and other non-user fees during that (undefined) time?<\/p>\n

The state treasury should not line up to cash that check just yet. \u00a0It’s going to be in court for a while, duking it out over interpretations of the Commerce Clause<\/a>; let’s not forget the suit over Equal Protection clause issues.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be a full-employment program for tax lawyers, and that’s after <\/em>all the ConLaw people get their cut.<\/p>\n

Coming up at 2PM: \u00a0What happens when a “plan” is really just a mish-mash of ideas that <\/strong>at best <\/strong><\/span><\/em>will never be adopted, and at worst will make a bad situation worse?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check out the Dayton Budget “Plan” for yourself<\/a>! \u00a0Find another howler? \u00a0Leave it in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The paragraph in Dayton’s budget plan is a subtle one: 3. Eliminate tax loopholes, such as the one allowing “Snowbirds” to live outside Minnesota for six months and one day of the year, and pay no personal income taxes in\u00a0this state. I would ensure that anyone who spends a significant amount of time in Minnesota […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayton-dustbowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","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=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}