{"id":51246,"date":"2015-02-12T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51246"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T13:32:27","slug":"who-has-two-thumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51246","title":{"rendered":"Who Has Two Thumbs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; And predicted <a href=\"http:\/\/m.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/291475091.html\">this<\/a> two years ago?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Less than two years after Minnesota raised its cigarette tax to one of the highest in the country, cigarette smuggling has become a growing business in the state. Now officials want more money to combat the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Department of Revenue officials seized or assessed untaxed tobacco products in more than 40 percent of the 374 retail inspections conducted through the first three quarters of last year. Before the cigarette tax jumped $1.60 per pack, or 130 percent, retail inspections found untaxed tobacco products only 8 percent of the time. The agency typically conducts 700 inspections a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why, as it happens, you read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34217\">here<\/a> first.<\/p>\n<p>Not that it takes a rocket scientist to figure this out. But it seems the DFL has banned rocket science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; And predicted this two years ago? Less than two years after Minnesota raised its cigarette tax to one of the highest in the country, cigarette smuggling has become a growing business in the state. Now officials want more money to combat the problem. Minnesota Department of Revenue officials seized or assessed untaxed tobacco products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51246","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=51246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51259,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51246\/revisions\/51259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}