{"id":45528,"date":"2014-07-02T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45528"},"modified":"2014-07-02T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:54:33","slug":"dear-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45528","title":{"rendered":"Dear “Progressives”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We warned you. Oh, yes we did.<\/p>\n

“When you raise the taxes on the parts of our society that produce wealth, the wealth moves”<\/p>\n

That’s especially true when the taxes you’re raising make the producers of wealth \u2013 companies, in this case \u2013 less competitive in a global marketplace with other companies that produce wealth and get less of a tax hit.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, it was Medtronic packing up its corporate plantation moving to Ireland for a much, much, much better tax rate.<\/p>\n

This week? Word that Walgreens is planning a similar inversion with a company in Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And after news that Nash Finch and Advance Auto Parts are leaving Minnesota largely because of the DFL’s tax orgy, and Red Wing Shoes and Laurence Transportation shelving major expansions because of that same tax policy, i’m wondering how much longer the DFL can hide behind the the headlines about Minnesota’s phantom, low unemployment rate.<\/p>\n

(Which translates to “low unemployment in the metro, where all the Fortune 1000 companies are, with the market a little less reassuring outstate…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We warned you. Oh, yes we did. “When you raise the taxes on the parts of our society that produce wealth, the wealth moves” That’s especially true when the taxes you’re raising make the producers of wealth \u2013 companies, in this case \u2013 less competitive in a global marketplace with other companies that produce wealth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,2,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45528","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=45528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45540,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45528\/revisions\/45540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}