{"id":33377,"date":"2013-01-14T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33377"},"modified":"2013-01-11T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T15:49:17","slug":"meanwhile-from-the-laboratories-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33377","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, From The Laboratories Of Democracy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News flash: \u00a0States that govern according to conservative precepts &#8211; especially cutting taxes to spur growth &#8211; are doing better than &#8220;progressive&#8221; states. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/morning-examiner-the-republican-surpluses\/article\/2517995\">Much, much better<\/a>. \u00a0And yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/336372.php\">even government revenues benefit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, &#8220;closing the deficit&#8221; with taxes rather than growth is <a href=\"http:\/\/pointsandfigures.com\/2013\/01\/11\/everyones-moving-away\/\">dragging &#8220;progressive&#8221; states down<\/a>. And that&#8217;s presuming the tax hikes actually close the deficit, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/drawandstrike.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/from-progressives-dont-learn-anything.html\">a dodgy proposition, given how tax hikes crush economic growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Question: \u00a0Which example do you suppose the MN DFL is emulating as they cackle madly over their word-processors today, cranking out bills by the pound?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News flash: \u00a0States that govern according to conservative precepts &#8211; especially cutting taxes to spur growth &#8211; are doing better than &#8220;progressive&#8221; states. \u00a0Much, much better. \u00a0And yep, even government revenues benefit. In the meantime, &#8220;closing the deficit&#8221; with taxes rather than growth is dragging &#8220;progressive&#8221; states down. And that&#8217;s presuming the tax hikes actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,16,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33377","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=33377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33383,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33377\/revisions\/33383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}