{"id":18152,"date":"2011-02-15T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18152"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:15:35","slug":"too-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18152","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Dustbowl: Too Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dayton&#8217;s budget:\u00a0 three billion in new taxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/?cat=117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/4952020177_a626ccd1ff_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Minnesotans who make toward $200K &#8211; dentists, middle managers, car salespeople, a few really good, hard-working waitstaff, fairly capable software developers, and above all, successful enterepreneurs &#8211; will be paying 10.95%.\u00a0 Over $500K ?\u00a0 An additional 3% &#8220;surcharge&#8221;, meaning top-flight lawyers, successful doctors, quite a few upper managers, and above all Minnesota&#8217;s most successful entrepreneurs and job creators &#8211; will be paying just shy of <strong>14<\/strong>%.<\/p>\n<p>All for the privilege of living in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><em>Even California and New York are smarter than this. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>You <em>can not <\/em>tax your way out of a recession.\u00a0 Government <em>can not spend its way out of a recession<\/em>; if it could, California and Illinois would be sitting pretty, and North Dakota would look like Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>This budget should not be voted down in the Legislature.\u00a0 It should be killed with fire.\u00a0 Then voted down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dayton&#8217;s budget:\u00a0 three billion in new taxes. Minnesotans who make toward $200K &#8211; dentists, middle managers, car salespeople, a few really good, hard-working waitstaff, fairly capable software developers, and above all, successful enterepreneurs &#8211; will be paying 10.95%.\u00a0 Over $500K ?\u00a0 An additional 3% &#8220;surcharge&#8221;, meaning top-flight lawyers, successful doctors, quite a few upper [&hellip;]<\/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-18152","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\/18152","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=18152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18156,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions\/18156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}