{"id":33742,"date":"2013-01-22T07:38:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33742"},"modified":"2013-01-22T07:39:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T13:39:20","slug":"huge-announcement-from-dayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33742","title":{"rendered":"Huge Announcement From Dayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation is that, along with the budget, Governor <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton will be proposing &#8220;reforms&#8221; to the state tax code today.<\/p>\n<p>My predictions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The budget will be over $40 billion<\/strong>. \u00a0That&#8217;s how many chits <del>she<\/del> he owes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Re: Tax &#8220;Reforms&#8221;: \u00a0I suspect unicorns may actually be involved<\/strong>: Like the French and the Californians, the DFL has a history of assuming money grows on trees, or is borne down from the sky in golden bags on the backs of unicorns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GOP Territory = Salt Mines<\/strong>: Look for Local Government Aid &#8211; used as a subsidy of Minneapolis, Saint Paul ,and Duluth &#8211; to make a triumphant return, like Lenin coming back to Petrograd. LGA will revert to its nineties-era form; the parts of the state that work (i.e. are mostly GOP) will be impelled to subsidize the parts that don&#8217;t (Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Duluth), on top of the parts that LGA was originally supposed to help (small, poor, older towns, and the perpetually-ailing Iron Range).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lots of &#8220;aid&#8221; to the Iron Range<\/strong>, to help make up for the fact that the metrocrat DFL Environmental movement is going to accelerate the strangling of the mining industry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Bonus question 1: \u00a0Which company will be the first to announce layoffs?<\/p>\n<p>Bonus question 2: Will Governor <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton videotape of\u00a0<em>this\u00a0<\/em>event?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation is that, along with the budget, Governor Messinger Dayton will be proposing &#8220;reforms&#8221; to the state tax code today. My predictions: The budget will be over $40 billion. \u00a0That&#8217;s how many chits she he owes. Re: Tax &#8220;Reforms&#8221;: \u00a0I suspect unicorns may actually be involved: Like the French and the Californians, the DFL has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33742","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=33742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33745,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33742\/revisions\/33745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}