{"id":70972,"date":"2019-04-04T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70972"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:57:53","slug":"an-idea-whose-time-should-not-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70972","title":{"rendered":"An Idea Whose Time Should Not Come"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you&#8217;re a Republican, especially in a bluish-purple place like Minnesota, you hope you can vote for Republicans who&#8217;ll hold the line on taxes &#8211; even to the minimal level of <em>not proposing new ones<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, we&#8217;re disappointed &#8211; as I discussed with Liz Mair on the show over the weekend.  Senator Howe is proposing a tax on electric vehicles.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/northern-alliance-radio-mitch-berg\/03-30-19-taxing-electric-vehicles\/embed?style=cover\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>I get the logic, sort of &#8211; it&#8217;s to replace some of the gas tax revenue lost by the increasing efficiency of cars the greater number of people driving electrics, and the people dropping out of the commuting force as telecommuting picks up speed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a Republican should be proposing fewer, not more, taxes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if we could see to some of that unsustainable spending, that&#8217;d be a cherry on the sundae.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re a Republican, especially in a bluish-purple place like Minnesota, you hope you can vote for Republicans who&#8217;ll hold the line on taxes &#8211; even to the minimal level of not proposing new ones. Sadly, we&#8217;re disappointed &#8211; as I discussed with Liz Mair on the show over the weekend. Senator Howe is proposing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132,72,104,13,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature","category-mngop","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-republicans","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70972","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=70972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70973,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70972\/revisions\/70973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}