{"id":30409,"date":"2012-09-13T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30409"},"modified":"2012-09-13T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:59:15","slug":"the-declaration-of-independence-according-to-mark-dayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30409","title":{"rendered":"The Declaration Of Independence, According To Mark Dayton"},"content":{"rendered":"

It goes a little something like this:<\/p>\n

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“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to coerce the livelihoods from another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the superior and unequal station to which the Theories of Keynes and Bloomsbury entitle them, a decent respect to the needs of government requires that they should declare other peoples’ property to be public property first, and their own last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equally vital belongings of Government, that they are endowed by their Government with certain unalienable Duties, that among these are to support the government that makes us all so very equal.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted upon Men, deriving their just powers from,\u00a0paradoxically, their power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Governor Dayton has an\u00a0odd idea of what unites us as a people, and of what this nation is supposed to be all about<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It starts as the same old story…:<\/p>\n

Dayton told a group at the University of Minnesota today that his administration is coming up with a plan to overhaul the entire tax code to make the tax system fairer to lower and middle income people. He didn’t offer specifics but said his plan would continue to include an income tax hike on the state’s top 2 percent of earners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…but quickly devolves into a big toke off the Obama\/Soros\/Messinger kool-aid-filled water pipe:<\/p>\n

Dayton also criticized Republicans in the Legislature and in Congress for being reluctant to raise taxes to pay for new programs.<\/p>\n

“This unwillingness to pay taxes and seeing it as a threat to our freedom and our liberty and our way of life, to me, is going to be the death of this country if it’s not corrected,” Dayton said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You heard him right.<\/p>\n

The desire to keep what one earns rather than seeing it squandered, the spirit of dissent against the idea that the fruit of your labor belongs to government first and you, eventually, maybe? \u00a0\u00a0That’s\u00a0<\/em>the threat to the nation!<\/p>\n

All you peasants have got to quit being so uppity!<\/p>\n

Your nobles have spoken!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It goes a little something like this: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to coerce the livelihoods from another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the superior and unequal station to which the Theories of Keynes and Bloomsbury entitle them, a decent respect to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,144,2,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30409","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=30409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30411,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30409\/revisions\/30411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}