{"id":86605,"date":"2023-12-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86605"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T15:48:51","slug":"if-the-dfl-were-a-spouse-itd-be-an-abuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86605","title":{"rendered":"If The DFL Were A Spouse, It’d Be An Abuser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The Twin Cities are victim of Greater Minnesota<\/em>!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a weird approach to messaging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the DFL’s noise machine is apparently betting long on it<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A\u00a0common refrain<\/a>\u00a0from Minnesota Republicans goes something like this: Rural communities are overtaxed, underfunded and ignored by legislators. Greater Minnesota sends their tax dollars to the Twin Cities, where metro residents benefit from government programs…It\u2019s a sweeping argument that plays into the state\u2019s often bitterly divided partisan and geographic politics, which have become deeply intertwined during the past decade, with Republicans dominating greater Minnesota while the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has locked down the metro. It also simplifies a complicated web of tax and revenue distributions \u2014\u00a0and it\u2019s factually untrue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is an extension of Paul Krugman’s ludicrious claim from 15-odd years ago that “blue” states “send more revenue” to “red” states than the other way around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the extent that its true, it’s because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n