{"id":58961,"date":"2016-06-01T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58961"},"modified":"2016-05-30T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T02:37:13","slug":"coincidence-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58961","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premise, accepted as a given: \u00a0Most government taxation and spending, especially in one-party cities like Minneapolis and Saint Paul (and, really, in\u00a0<em>de facto\u00a0<\/em>one-party states like Minnesota) exists primarily to take wealth from the producing class and give it&#8230;not so much to people who need it as much as\u00a0<em>to the political class<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With that accepted as a given (and I do accept it as a given, and so do you, if you think about it even a little), can it be even a tiny surprise that the same week brought us both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/2016-legislative-wrapup-party-lines-led-to-a-standstill\/381215591\/\">this story<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legislators approved $35 million this year with $17.5 million ongoing to address racial and economic disparities, particularly in north Minneapolis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/naacp-head-levy-pounds-to-leave-st-thomas-law-school\/381180201\/\">this one<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premise, accepted as a given: \u00a0Most government taxation and spending, especially in one-party cities like Minneapolis and Saint Paul (and, really, in\u00a0de facto\u00a0one-party states like Minnesota) exists primarily to take wealth from the producing class and give it&#8230;not so much to people who need it as much as\u00a0to the political class. With that accepted as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58961","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=58961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58962,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58961\/revisions\/58962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}