{"id":85554,"date":"2023-07-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85554"},"modified":"2023-07-16T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T02:46:17","slug":"weasel-words-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85554","title":{"rendered":"Weasel Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the session: the DFL said that their \u201cchild tax credit\u201d would reduce child poverty by a Third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that we are waiting for the taxes to kick in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did you know our new Child Tax Credit could reduce child poverty in Minnesota up to 33%?<br>\u00a0<br>In Minnesota, we recognize that ending child poverty should not be controversial.<\/p>&mdash; Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan (@LtGovFlanagan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LtGovFlanagan\/status\/1680619816346955780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood\u201c reduce child poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Homer Simpson, slowly disappearing into the hedge behind him, the DFL is walking their absurd claim back, confident that nobody in the Twin Cities media will call them on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m going to check back periodically, just to see how child poverty has, well, \u201cfallen\u201d.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Any bets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the session: the DFL said that their \u201cchild tax credit\u201d would reduce child poverty by a Third. Now that we are waiting for the taxes to kick in: \u201cGood\u201c reduce child poverty. Like Homer Simpson, slowly disappearing into the hedge behind him, the DFL is walking their absurd claim back, confident that nobody in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85554","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=85554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85555,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85554\/revisions\/85555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}