{"id":38960,"date":"2013-10-10T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38960"},"modified":"2013-10-10T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T21:09:46","slug":"were-number-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38960","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Number 47!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota <a href=\"http:\/\/taxfoundation.org\/article\/2014-state-business-tax-climate-index\">has the 47th-best tax climate<\/a>, according to the non-partisan [1] Tax Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>In none of the five major categories &#8211; corporate, individual income, sales, unemployment or property taxes &#8211; is Minnesota even in the top 60%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CC8QqQIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizjournals.com%2Ftwincities%2Fnews%2F2013%2F10%2F09%2Ftarget-lays-off-150-corporate-employees.html&amp;ei=MaxWUqrgFuiqyAG0kICIDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFm-Dz3DaCgZ3OMhszaOxyZimIt2A&amp;bvm=bv.53760139,d.aWc\">Keep up the good work<\/a>, DFL!<\/p>\n<p>[1] &#8211; Hey, if the media calls &#8220;Common Cause&#8221; &#8220;non-partisan&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CORRECTION:\u00a0 47th best.\u00a0 Not 47th worst.\u00a0 I needed coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota has the 47th-best tax climate, according to the non-partisan [1] Tax Foundation. In none of the five major categories &#8211; corporate, individual income, sales, unemployment or property taxes &#8211; is Minnesota even in the top 60%. Keep up the good work, DFL! [1] &#8211; Hey, if the media calls &#8220;Common Cause&#8221; &#8220;non-partisan&#8221;&#8230; CORRECTION:\u00a0 47th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960","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=38960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38962,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions\/38962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}