{"id":19091,"date":"2011-03-29T06:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19091"},"modified":"2011-03-29T06:10:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:10:36","slug":"where-did-you-hear-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19091","title":{"rendered":"Where Did You Hear It First?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Post at MDE passes on the House GOP’s debunking of the DFL and media’s (pardon the redundancy) LGA myth list<\/a>:<\/p>\n

-Since 2010, property taxes have grown due to other factors (economic growth, property value increases, school levy increases) by $1.9 billion or around 68%. Between 2000- 2010, statewide Taxable Market Value increased 142%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We noticed this hasn’t changed one iota last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-During the 1990\u2032s LGA was increased and property taxes still increased<\/p>\n

-The wealthy absolutely pay their fair share:<\/p>\n

The top 20% (those with household incomes over $90,000 per year) pay nearly three-quarters of the income tax while the bottom 20% pay nothing and even get something back.<\/p>\n

The top 5% of households (those with household incomes over $183,000 per year) pay about 43% of the income tax.<\/p>\n

The top 1% of households (those with household incomes over $430,000 per year) pay about 25% of the income tax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The good news – if the GOP gets its way?:<\/p>\n

-Here\u2019s where the tax cuts would be felt by tax year 2014:<\/p>\n

Married couple with 2 dependents:<\/p>\n

Income of $50,000 will see a decrease of 11.2%.<\/p>\n

Income of $75,000 will see a decrease of 10.1%<\/p>\n

Income of $500,000, will see a decrease of 1.7%<\/p>\n

Head of household with 1 dependent<\/p>\n

Income of $25,000 will see a decrease of 38.1%<\/p>\n

Income of $50,000 will see a decrease of 9.9%<\/p>\n

Income of $500,000 will see a decrease of 1.2%<\/p>\n

Single filer with no dependents<\/p>\n

Income of $25,000 will see a decrease of 11.2%<\/p>\n

Income of $50,000 will see a decrease of 8%<\/p>\n

Income of $75,000 will see a decrease of 6.5%<\/p>\n

Income of $500,000 will see a decrease of 0.8%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was the part I loved; according to a 2003 report from the State Auditor…:<\/p>\n

Cities above the median in LGA per capita spend 42 percent more on total current expenditures than those below the median LGA per capita.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this because their bills are 42% higher<\/em>? Or is it because<\/p>\n

Cities that received the most LGA per capita had much lower taxes per capita.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scraaaaatch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You mean – Local Government Aid merely means everyone else must be Happy To Pay For A Better Minnesota so that people in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth can happy to pay “much less” per capita?<\/p>\n

That hardly seems fair…<\/p>\n

Cities above the median in LGA per capita spend a greater percentage of resources on non-essential services than cities below the median LGA per capita.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

LGA – once intended to help poor rural cities afford the essentials of modern life, like sewage treatment and schools – has become a way for cities to pay for the luxuries, since the rest of the state pays for the necessities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Post at MDE passes on the House GOP’s debunking of the DFL and media’s (pardon the redundancy) LGA myth list: -Since 2010, property taxes have grown due to other factors (economic growth, property value increases, school levy increases) by $1.9 billion or around 68%. Between 2000- 2010, statewide Taxable Market Value increased 142%. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19091","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\/19091","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=19091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19093,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091\/revisions\/19093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}