{"id":59462,"date":"2016-07-01T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59462"},"modified":"2016-07-01T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:35:30","slug":"mixed-messages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59462","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a liberal must be confusing.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit A: \u00a0This week&#8217;s\u00a0<em>City Pages<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand: \u00a0Mike Mullen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/news\/at-menards-employees-learn-to-become-lobbyists-for-the-billionaire-owner-8390907\">complains that Mendards&#8217; management training program urges the store&#8217;s staff to oppose tax hikes<\/a>. \u00a0Because taxes are what makes life worth living, and by no means should Menards expect its\u00a0<em>management\u00a0<\/em>to support the store&#8217;s financial health, nosirreebob.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand: \u00a0Corey Zurowski bemoans a non-profit that presumably is no\u00a0&#8220;happy to pay for a Better Minnesota&#8221; as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/news\/how-the-vikings-stadium-tax-bankrupted-a-st-cloud-bingo-charity-8370269\">it has been extincted by&#8230;taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d imagine this&#8217;d cause some heads to explode, if any of the\u00a0<em>City Pages&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>audience really thought about it.<\/p>\n<p>But I jest.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I slay me.<\/p>\n<p>(Via regular commenter Chuck)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a liberal must be confusing. Exhibit A: \u00a0This week&#8217;s\u00a0City Pages. On the one hand: \u00a0Mike Mullen complains that Mendards&#8217; management training program urges the store&#8217;s staff to oppose tax hikes. \u00a0Because taxes are what makes life worth living, and by no means should Menards expect its\u00a0management\u00a0to support the store&#8217;s financial health, nosirreebob. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59462","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=59462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59464,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59462\/revisions\/59464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}