{"id":36937,"date":"2013-06-26T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36937"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:51:10","slug":"governor-messinger-dayton-eat-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36937","title":{"rendered":"Governor <Strike>Messinger<\/strike> Dayton:  &#8220;Eat The Poor!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor\u00a0<del>Alida Messinger<\/del> Mark Dayton, 2011: \u00a0&#8220;Rorra rammma hassa humper thunt&#8221;. \u00a0(Translation: \u00a0We&#8217;re only raising taxes on the top 1%)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/4952020177_a626ccd1ff_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Govenor\u00a0<del>Alida Messinger<\/del> Mark Dayton, 2013: \u00a0&#8220;OK, poor people gotta pony up too!<\/p>\n<p>The DFL&#8217;s current tax plan not only raises taxes on\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>Minnesotans across the board, but actually\u00a0<em>raises taxes on the poorest Minnesotans by more than the wealthiest<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View 2013 Minnesota Tax Bill Incidence Analysis on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/149914602\/2013-Minnesota-Tax-Bill-Incidence-Analysis\">2013 Minnesota Tax Bill Incidence Analysis<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View minnesoda238's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/minnesoda238\">minnesoda238<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_19944\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/149914602\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-2n0hj2lu8yhc3qgy10x4&amp;show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.772922022279349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Down below is the key table, showing net tax hikes by income &#8220;decile&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=36939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36939\" title=\"Deciles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Deciles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Deciles.png 666w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Deciles-300x238.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Deciles-377x300.png 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s right &#8211; not only did taxes rise more\u00a0for the bottom 20% than for the top 10%, but under the DFL plan\u00a0taxes rose <em>more <\/em>for the bottom 10% than for Dayton&#8217;s friends, family and neighbors in the top 1%!<\/p>\n<p>To add stupid insult to pointless injury &#8211; the report (prepared by Dayton&#8217;s employees) notes that the taxes on the lower deciles might drop because of &#8220;property tax relief&#8221;. \u00a0But that assumes that city and county governments will pass &#8220;their&#8221; local government aid raise on to taxpayers, rather than plowing it into more spending &#8211; an assumption that history shows is too stupid even to laugh at.<\/p>\n<p>This is the change you hoped for, Working Minnesota?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor\u00a0Alida Messinger Mark Dayton, 2011: \u00a0&#8220;Rorra rammma hassa humper thunt&#8221;. \u00a0(Translation: \u00a0We&#8217;re only raising taxes on the top 1%) Govenor\u00a0Alida Messinger Mark Dayton, 2013: \u00a0&#8220;OK, poor people gotta pony up too! The DFL&#8217;s current tax plan not only raises taxes on\u00a0all\u00a0Minnesotans across the board, but actually\u00a0raises taxes on the poorest Minnesotans by more than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayton-dustbowl","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36937","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=36937"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36961,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36937\/revisions\/36961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}