{"id":13842,"date":"2010-09-27T05:31:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T10:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2010-09-26T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T01:55:26","slug":"the-dayton-dustbowl-for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13842","title":{"rendered":"The Dayton Dustbowl: For The Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the show on Saturday, I talked about how the Dayton “2.0” budget – his second shot at the budget, after his first attempt came up three freaking billion dollars short<\/em> – was still one freaking billion dollars short<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Someone called off the air asking for proof; I’d gotten into an interview, so couldn’t answer it right away.<\/p>\n

But the answer, as a matter of fact, is\u00a0on the Dayton “Mulligan budget” website<\/a>, down at the very bottom.<\/p>\n

To wit:<\/p>\n

T O T A L SPENDING CUTS: $1.213 Billion<\/div>\n
T O T A L RE V ENUE INCRE ASES & SPENDING CUTS: $4.876<\/div>\n
Billion<\/div>\n
F ORE C AST DE F I CI T : $5.766 Billion<\/div>\n

TOTAL SPENDING CUTS: $1.213 Billion<\/p>\n

TOTAL REVENUE INCREASES & SPENDING CUTS: $4.876\u00a0Billion<\/p>\n

FORECAST DEFICIT : $5.766 Billion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So do the math; the difference is $890 Million Dollars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That’s after <\/em>raising taxes on “the rich” (families making over $150K a year); that’s after <\/em>a tax hike twelve times the size of the $400 million hike <\/em>that the DFL-dominated legislature managed to pass by one vote (Tarryl Clark’s!) during a session at the height of Obamamania.<\/p>\n

If the media weren’t so busy checking up on Tom Emmer’s landscapers and exactly what <\/em>percentage of cities he said received Local Government Aid, the people might actually know something about this and…<\/p>\n

…oh, wait. \u00a0Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the show on Saturday, I talked about how the Dayton “2.0” budget – his second shot at the budget, after his first attempt came up three freaking billion dollars short – was still one freaking billion dollars short. Someone called off the air asking for proof; I’d gotten into an interview, so couldn’t answer […]<\/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-13842","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\/13842","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=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13845,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions\/13845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}