{"id":53069,"date":"2015-05-01T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53069"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:46:33","slug":"surplus-of-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53069","title":{"rendered":"Surplus Of Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is ordering a Banh Mi sandwich at iPho on University. \u00a0Avery LIBRELLE enters the store.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hey, Merg! \u00a0 After four years, Minnesota’s economy is rocking under Mark Dayton, while Wisconsin is sucking pond water!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0How do you figure?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Minnesota has a $2 Billion surplus<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Right. \u00a0After raising taxes by…$2 Billion. \u00a0Now, if the economy is humming along, you’d think that the surplus would be bigger than the tax increase, now, wouldn’t you?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0At least Minnesota\u00a0has\u00a0<\/em>a surplus!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Right – apparetly, entirely due to the tax hikes. \u00a0In the meantime, Wisconsin is headed toward a surplus<\/a> without the need for tax hikes – or, as we call it, a\u00a0sustainable\u00a0<\/em>surplus.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yeah, but our economy is still better!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 Most of Minnesota’s growth is in metro-area medical, medical device, insurance and financial services companies – the ones that benefitted from Obamacare and “Too Big to Fail” stimuli. \u00a0Things aren’t nearly as rosy in Greater Minnesota. \u00a0In the meantime, Wisconsin’s growth is being held back by the slow manufacturing sector – which is a much bigger share of Wisconsin’s economy than Minnesota’s, and isn’t doing all that well here, either.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0If Minnesota had elected Tom Emmer governor in 2010, we’d be in the same boat!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Right. \u00a0We’d have two economies being dragged down by Democrat policies.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0What?<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0The parts of Wisconsin that are dragging the state’s economy are the ones that have been run by Democrats for generations. \u00a0The decay of Milwaukee’s manufacturing base is the state’s biggest economic problem.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hah! \u00a0But in Minnesota, it’s the Democrat-run cities that are winning…<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0…as a result of national Democrat probrams to transfer wealth from consumers to banks and health insurance companies.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0You should issue a rape trigger warning.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Clearly.<\/p>\n

<\/em>[And SCENE<\/em>]<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is ordering a Banh Mi sandwich at iPho on University. \u00a0Avery LIBRELLE enters the store. LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hey, Merg! \u00a0 After four years, Minnesota’s economy is rocking under Mark Dayton, while Wisconsin is sucking pond water! BERG: \u00a0How do you figure? LIBRELLE: \u00a0Minnesota has a $2 Billion surplus BERG: \u00a0Right. \u00a0After raising taxes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,16,21],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-53069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism","category-midwest","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53069","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=53069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53103,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53069\/revisions\/53103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}