{"id":24527,"date":"2011-11-23T07:41:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24527"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:26:08","slug":"shutdown-lets-do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24527","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown: Let’s Do It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer’s government shutdown, according to Minnesota Management and Budget,\u00a0was a wash<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A nearly three-week Minnesota government shutdown in July over a budget impasse left broad public frustration, but little impact on state finances, the state’s budget office said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The longest and most expansive state government shutdown in Minnesota history left 19,000 government employees sitting at home and shuttered road construction projects, state parks, highway rest stops, the state lottery and horse racing tracks.<\/p>\n

Costs for lost revenue from compliance with taxes, the lottery, the state parks and preparation leading up to the shutdown totaled about $60 million, but Minnesota also saved about $65 million in compensation not paid to state workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That, of course, was why the shutdown only lasted three weeks; Dayton left Saint Paul to go outstate, saw that nobody really cared, <\/em>and realized that his gambit to squeeze Minnesotans into compliance with his tax-hiking platform was doomed.<\/p>\n

Indeed the capsule summary shows a slim $5 million profit. \u00a0Here’s where I’ll call BS. \u00a0If the MMB – which is an executive office which reports to Mark Dayton – says it’s a $5 million profit, the state likely made out much better than that.<\/p>\n

No, I have nothing to base that on – but experience watching the DFL-dominated bureacracy. \u00a0Which, in Minnesota, is both unsupportable and usually accurate.<\/p>\n

Just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer’s government shutdown, according to Minnesota Management and Budget,\u00a0was a wash: A nearly three-week Minnesota government shutdown in July over a budget impasse left broad public frustration, but little impact on state finances, the state’s budget office said on Tuesday. The longest and most expansive state government shutdown in Minnesota history left 19,000 government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24527","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=24527"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24531,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24527\/revisions\/24531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}