{"id":20796,"date":"2011-06-28T05:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20796"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:02:06","slug":"a-modest-proposal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20796","title":{"rendered":"Elections Count, Part MCMCCLXXIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the state government shuts down, it won\u2019t be spending tax money, right?  So why should I pay state taxes for the portion of the government that\u2019s shut down?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m willing to pay for what I get, but fair is fair \u2013 if they\u2019re not providing the service, I shouldn\u2019t have to pay for it.  I propose we only pay for what\u2019s deemed \u201cessential.\u201d  If that\u2019s 10% of the budget, we pay 10% of the taxes; the rest, we keep.  Even Cy Thao should agree with that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;d be Cy Thao, the former St. Paul state senator who famously said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you guys win, you get to keep your money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>When we win, we take your money<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And when you&#8217;re not working, we should keep our money.<\/p>\n<p>Because while we, the taxpayer, may not have &#8220;won&#8221;, it&#8217;s for sure that by floating Mark Dayton into office on a wave of toxic sleaze, all you state workers lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park writes: When the state government shuts down, it won\u2019t be spending tax money, right? So why should I pay state taxes for the portion of the government that\u2019s shut down? I\u2019m willing to pay for what I get, but fair is fair \u2013 if they\u2019re not providing the service, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-20796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20796","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=20796"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20812,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20796\/revisions\/20812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}