{"id":52664,"date":"2015-04-15T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52664"},"modified":"2015-04-14T21:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:54:55","slug":"intended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52664","title":{"rendered":"Intended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the Minnesota DFL made all sorts of noises about wanting people to quit smoking?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they only want them to quit the\u00a0<em>right\u00a0<\/em>way. \u00a0Lyle Koenen (DFL), has introduced a bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/bill.php?b=senate&amp;f=SF2025&amp;ssn=0&amp;y=2015\">SF 2025<\/a>) that would jack up taxes on e-cigarette vapor products by 800%.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the goal is to try to gut sales of e-cigarettes &#8211; which would seem to be cutting into the state&#8217;s lucrative racket, picking the pockets of tobacco users.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very worth a call to your legislator. \u00a0Ask them why they want to drive people back to tobacco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the Minnesota DFL made all sorts of noises about wanting people to quit smoking? Apparently they only want them to quit the\u00a0right\u00a0way. \u00a0Lyle Koenen (DFL), has introduced a bill (SF 2025) that would jack up taxes on e-cigarette vapor products by 800%. Clearly, the goal is to try to gut sales of e-cigarettes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52664","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=52664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52704,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52664\/revisions\/52704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}