{"id":42258,"date":"2014-03-07T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42258"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:34:15","slug":"strib-look-at-all-that-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42258","title":{"rendered":"Strib: “Look At All That Money!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know me.<\/p>\n

You know I believe that the Strib is – and at the highest level, sees itself – as a PR arm for the DFL.<\/p>\n

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I don’t think I’ve left a whole lot of you wondering about my beliefs about Minnesota’s Newspaper of Record.<\/p>\n

But I never figured the business section’s Neal Saint Anthony would turn into a stenographoer for Alida Messinger, too.<\/p>\n

But one of my last little outposts of pollyannaism about theStrib’ssense of detachment has been the business section, especially Neal Saint Anthony.<\/p>\n

I was wrong, of course<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Nearly half of the tax cuts Gov. Mark Dayton proposed Thursday are for businesses and their owners, a move that may reduce the anti-business criticism that has dogged him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dayton proposed \u2014 and the House almost immediately passed \u2014 eliminating three business-sales taxes that accounted for $232 million in his overall $616 million in tax cuts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0He also asked lawmakers to simplify and raise the estate tax deduction to $2 million from $1 million and to eliminate the gift tax, a 10 percent levy on any personal gift above $1 million. Those moves would cut $43 million in taxes, bringing the combined cut on businesses and the wealthy to $275 million, or 44 percent of the total.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So let’s get this straight:<\/p>\n