Let\u2019s remember that Sen. Bakk, then the chairman of the Senate Tax Committee, knew this information when he proposed this \u2018solution\u2019 to the Vikings stadium situation. This information raises important questions, more than I can address in a single post. The biggest questions go to politicians like Gov. Dayton and Sen. Bakk.<\/p>\n
The first question I\u2019d want answered is this: why would Gov. Dayton and Sen. Bakk propose using revenues from an \u201cindustry under stress\u201d the last 5 years?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Because gambling is a unicorn.<\/p>\n
Not literally, like a flying horse with a horn. \u00a0But DFL financing is always <\/em>built on the idea that some sort of magical unicorn – “gamblers”, or “the rich” – will bring money to them for their grandest plans, and all they have to do is say “heeeeeer, unicorn!”<\/p>\nSo Tom Bakk hears “gambling”, and thinks “money for nothing”!<\/p>\n
Conservatives know that there is no such thing as money for nothing.<\/p>\n
And Gary would like to point that out:<\/p>\n
The next question I\u2019d have for Gov. Dayton and Sen. Bakk is equally simple: Why would they put funding for charities and school sports programs at risk?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Good question.<\/p>\n
Well, Senator Bakk? \u00a0Governor \u00e5Dayton? \u00a0What’s the answer? \u00a0And there really are only two choices. \u00a0And one of them is “screw the kids, if I don’t keep the Vikes here, my voters will have a cow”‘.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m not much of a gambler, personally – but I support legalizing it more broadly at a state level. \u00a0I support it because it’s a tax on people other than me. Cynical? \u00a0Sure. \u00a0Pass the ketchup. Seriously? \u00a0For better or worse, gambling has its place in Minnesota. \u00a0For over two decades, proceeds from pull tabs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,123,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209","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=26209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26211,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209\/revisions\/26211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}