{"id":37264,"date":"2013-07-16T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37264"},"modified":"2013-07-16T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T13:39:30","slug":"libs-and-econ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37264","title":{"rendered":"Economics Is Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats are starting to get defensive about the DFL’s Democrat Tax Orgy.<\/p>\n

How defensive?<\/p>\n

Sally Jo Sorenson, one of the very few Minnesota leftybloggers that doesn’t deserve to be under police surveillance, took time off from her busy schedule of amending incoming comments to have a screaming, body-function-control-losing cow<\/del> tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

MNGOP troll blames “DFL anti-biz MORONS” in 2013 for June 2011 Unline [sic]<\/em>\u00a0relocation choice #mnleg #oops #stribpol bit.ly\/1ahYf5i<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The linked blog post notes that a Republican tweep blamed ULine moving its warehouse to Wisconsin on Governor Dayton’s warehouse tax, when ULine actually started making its plans for the move in 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Well.\u00a0 I guess that crunches it.\u00a0 I’m going to have to draft a pained concession.\u00a0 Bear with me a moment.<\/p>\n

Ms. Sorenson,<\/em><\/p>\n

Great point.\u00a0 That rhetorical “oops” on Twitter completely invalidates the entire case against raising taxes in a recession.\u00a0 With that, I guess we have to admit the DFL tax orgy, notwithstanding the fact that\u00a0Democrat tax orgies never ever ever\u00a0work,\u00a0will not only have no effect, but will set the state’s economic blender to “puree”.\u00a0 All by its lonesome.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

All because a Republican tweep bobbled a date on one event.\u00a0 We sit corrected, and admit abject defeat.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, wait – your entire point is invalidated too, because you misspelled “ULine”.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

I guess we’re both completely utterly wrong!<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t have a cow!\u00a0 Or a melt-down!\u00a0 Or go all emo on us!\u00a0 It’s just a misspelling – albeit one that completely invalidates – by your own “logic” – your entire argument, whatever it is.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Regards,<\/em><\/p>\n

Berg<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, Sorenson missed the memo (or perhaps just isn’t being paid to fret about such things) about Navarre packing up shop and heading for Texas.\u00a0 Or Red Wing Shoes <\/a>and Laurence Transportation <\/a>moving their warehouse plans across the Mississippi.\u00a0 Or the other warehouses around Minnesota that are not-so-quietly eyeing locations across one river or the other.\u00a0 None of those count…<\/p>\n

…because of that darned Republican tweep bobbling the date for “Unline’s” plans.<\/p>\n

That’s all it takes, apparently, to prove an economic plan unimpeachably correct.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, 2011 was <\/em>a date we had a Democrat governor back into office promising a raft of business taxes.\u00a0 And when the Republican party showed signs of unravelling; for those paying attention, 2011 was full of messages that Minnesota’s tax future was going to be a departure of some kind from the relatively conservative past; at the very least, the future promised uncertainty (and delivered it!).\u00a0 Businesses hate uncertainty – they plan years, not weeks, ahead; perhaps the folks at “Unline” were more on top of the situation than we knew.<\/p>\n

Or maybe not.\u00a0 And it doesn’t matter, because it’s moot point.\u00a0 Because once a “Republican troll” gets a date wrong, the entire argument is over!<\/p>\n

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Closed Circuit to SITD readers: let’s have a little pool, here. Do you think Ms. Sorenson will refer to this post as:<\/p>\n