{"id":37036,"date":"2013-07-01T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37036"},"modified":"2013-07-01T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:44:03","slug":"the-wreck-everything-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37036","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Wreck Everything&#8221; Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the 2012 elections, the DFL tried to call the previous, GOP-run legislature a &#8220;do-nothing&#8221; legislature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=35213\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35213\" title=\"DaytonDustbowl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DaytonDustbowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside the obvious &#8211; the government that governs best governs least &#8211; it <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27905\">was a lie<\/a>. The 2011-2012 legislatures accomplished some useful stuff &#8211; hobbled by a &#8220;governor&#8221; who was fully-owned by extremist special interests and some very un-conservative detours like the Vikings stadium.<\/p>\n<p>But as we wait at the halfway point of a session of one-party government, what does the DFL have to show for their unfettered power?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business taxes &#8211; especially the warehousing tax &#8211; that lop\u00a0a serious chunk off of Minnesota business&#8217; bottom line, and that already have businesses heading for the exits.<\/li>\n<li>Two extra billion dollars taken out of the productive parts of the state&#8217;s economy.\u00a0 Remember &#8211; Minnesota&#8217;s GDP is about $267 Billion.\u00a0 Another two billion is nearly a percent &#8211; on top of the 30-odd billion in state spending that the state already sucks out of productive use.\u00a0 Imagine having an additional 1% of your productive income taken out of circulation &#8211; $500 a year if you make $50K.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s not chicken feed.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A home daycare system saddled with useless graft to the public employee unions, and with its revenue further cut by the state&#8217;s move into all-day kindergarten &#8211; which adds virtually nothing to kids&#8217; education, but does create lots of new union jobs that pay dues to the DFL.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And all of that at the end of a session that wasted months arguing about DFL social-domination issues (gun control, gay marriage) and power-acquisition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for what?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far, nothing but damage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take &#8220;do nothing&#8221;, thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the 2012 elections, the DFL tried to call the previous, GOP-run legislature a &#8220;do-nothing&#8221; legislature. Leaving aside the obvious &#8211; the government that governs best governs least &#8211; it was a lie. The 2011-2012 legislatures accomplished some useful stuff &#8211; hobbled by a &#8220;governor&#8221; who was fully-owned by extremist special interests and some very [&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-37036","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\/37036","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=37036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37053,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036\/revisions\/37053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}