{"id":19445,"date":"2011-04-19T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19445"},"modified":"2011-04-19T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:51:03","slug":"the-dayton-dustbowl-welcome-to-mark-daytons-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19445","title":{"rendered":"The Dayton Dustbowl: Welcome To Mark Dayton&#8217;s Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gotta confess, when I hatched the &#8220;Dayton Dust Bowl&#8221; idea way back last fall, I had no idea it would catch on like this.<\/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><\/p>\n<p>But then, I didn&#8217;t think Minnesotans were dumb enough to elect a governor whose entire platform was &#8220;killing dynamism and growth in Minnesota&#8221; and &#8220;going back to the seventies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But Minnesotans surprised me &#8211; not in a good way &#8211; and so here we are, having serious discussions about raising taxes during a crippling recession after the idea of &#8220;raising taxes during a recession&#8221; has gone 0 for 300 worldwide in the past 200 years or so.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Majority, thankfully, is on the case. \u00a0About an hour ago, they rolled out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.souptruck.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SoupTruck2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.souptruck.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SoupTruck2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the Dayton Soup Truck!<\/p>\n<p>From MNMaj&#8217;s press advisory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSoup Truck\u201d Launched in Response to Dayton\u2019s Job-Killing Taxation Proposals.<\/p>\n<p>Aims to inform Minnesotans and help them prepare for tough economic times ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Coming soon to a bread line near you.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the GOP wins the budget battle this session, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gotta confess, when I hatched the &#8220;Dayton Dust Bowl&#8221; idea way back last fall, I had no idea it would catch on like this. But then, I didn&#8217;t think Minnesotans were dumb enough to elect a governor whose entire platform was &#8220;killing dynamism and growth in Minnesota&#8221; and &#8220;going back to the seventies&#8221;. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,132,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayton-dustbowl","category-mn-legislature","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19445","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=19445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19449,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19445\/revisions\/19449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}