{"id":16335,"date":"2010-12-16T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16335"},"modified":"2010-12-16T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T13:10:21","slug":"dayton-its-gonna-hurt-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16335","title":{"rendered":"Dayton: It’s Gonna Hurt So Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Governor elect appeared on Bloomberg yesterday<\/a> and continues to hedge his campaign promises as he realizes how far out of sync they are with the wishes of Minnesotans as expressed so clearly in nearly every Minnesota election contest…save his.<\/p>\n

Republican leaders have so far indicated<\/a> they will be taking a hard line against raising taxes — a key facet of Dayton’s budget plans during the campaign. During the Bloomberg interview, however, Dayton warned that a budget solution without tax increases would have serious consequences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[insert serious sounding music here]<\/p>\n

Indeed. To a liberal, serious consequences mean the devastating possibility that government may have to do more with less…sort of like most of the rest of us.<\/p>\n

“I campaigned on a pledge that I would reduce the regressivity of Minnesota’s state and local taxes and ask upper income Minnesotans to pay closer to their appropriate share — the same amount as everybody else,”\u00a0Dayton said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This always makes me laugh…or cry depending on the day.<\/p>\n

First off, what kind of delusional pinhead labels a tax rate that increases with income regressive? It’s by definition<\/em> progressive. That’s what the word means you twit.<\/p>\n

Then again, who can blame a guy who is so far removed from reality; whose butler’s butler pays his bills from the coffers his great grandpappy filled years ago.<\/p>\n

Second, half of us don’t pay taxes at all<\/em> – many get a “tax credit” even when they pay nothing<\/em> (save social security) into the system. I know a lot of people that employ others that pay in one quarterly<\/em> installment what many people pay in taxes all year long. The fact is, upper income Minnesotans pay way more than their share by any measure of the use of services, infrastructure or resources you can muster.<\/p>\n

Add in all the additional sales taxes (albeit somewhat by choice), self employment taxes,\u00a0 and alternative minimum taxes, just to name a few that the upper middle class – let alone the wealthy – pay and it is clear that the Pareto principal is alive and well as it regards a minority representing a majority of revenue collected in the form of taxes.<\/p>\n

The fact is, thousands<\/em> are getting a free ride – and none<\/em> of them are “upper income.” You want to talk fairness? For real? Then everybody that makes anything should pay something – anything <\/em>into the system.<\/p>\n

“Republicans don’t think [raising taxes is] such a great idea, but they’re going to find it’s very difficult to cut $6.2 billion — which is about 19 percent of our budget — without drastically affecting especially education, which is almost half of the state expenditure.”<\/p>\n

Either way, he said, “it’s going to be very painful, there’s no way around it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, and if Republicans don’t deliver that pain they won’t be delivering on the promises that got them elected either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Governor elect appeared on Bloomberg yesterday and continues to hedge his campaign promises as he realizes how far out of sync they are with the wishes of Minnesotans as expressed so clearly in nearly every Minnesota election contest…save his. Republican leaders have so far indicated they will be taking a hard line against raising […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16335"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16384,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions\/16384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}