{"id":46344,"date":"2014-08-12T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46344"},"modified":"2014-08-11T19:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T00:20:54","slug":"slump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46344","title":{"rendered":"Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid all the DFL’s bragging about the economy – which Bill Glahn dispensed with<\/a> earlier this week – let’s note that for the fifth straight month, tax receipts are off.<\/p>\n

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And not by just a little bit<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Minnesota’s tax collections for July have come in $69 million below expectations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Department of Minnesota Management and Budget released its monthly revenue Monday. It shows the state took in 6.6 percent less than was forecast<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in the wake of the DFL’s bragging about the state’s ostensible unemployment rate?<\/p>\n

The shortage was most acute in the area of individual income taxes, which were off by $36 million. Officials say some could be attributed to timing of tax payments or refunds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure. \u00a0Some of it could.<\/p>\n

But most of it is attributed to the fact that\u00a0under DFL rule, the state’s economy is slumping. \u00a0Slowly – it’s a gradual thing, as economic trends always are – but definite.<\/p>\n

And all the DFL’s happy talk is fermented BS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amid all the DFL’s bragging about the economy – which Bill Glahn dispensed with earlier this week – let’s note that for the fifth straight month, tax receipts are off. And not by just a little bit (emphasis added): Minnesota’s tax collections for July have come in $69 million below expectations. The Department of Minnesota […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayton-dustbowl","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344","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=46344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46346,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions\/46346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}