{"id":89774,"date":"2025-07-14T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89774"},"modified":"2025-07-14T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:06:09","slug":"three-questions-for-lt-gov-flanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89774","title":{"rendered":"Three Questions For Lt. Gov. Flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:\u00a0 Lieutenant Governor Flanagan<br \/>From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant<br \/>Re:\u00a0 I Have Questions.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s Be Honest, You Just Don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>Do\u00a0<\/em>Answers.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Governor Flanagan,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I caught this tweet over the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/peggyflanagan\/status\/1944513690784473409\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got two questions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0 Does This Mean You&#8217;re Cutting Taxes?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>One of the main reasons families (who can&#8217;t afford to leave Minnesota) are &#8220;just scraping by&#8221; is Minnesota&#8217;s confiscatory taxes.\u00a0 Sales taxes in the metro (when you add local to state taxes) are up over 10%. The overall tax burden, driving by state taxes, is among the heaviest in the nation, and affects people at every level.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given that the administration of which you were an aggressively co-equal part squandered an $18B surplus, I need to ask: does this mean you&#8217;re repenting of your wastrel ways?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Do You Share A Platitude Tech With Gov. Walz?<\/strong>. Your twitter feed is not just an endless series of banal platitudes, but &#8220;style&#8221;-istically they appear to be written by the same unimaginative pollyanna-for-hire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1928819297381474334\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps endless streams of platitudes are going to sound the same no matter who the writer is, but it just seems too close to be a mere coincidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. You Know My First Question Was Sarcastic, Right?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>There&#8217;s no way &#8220;cutting taxes&#8221; is ever going to be on the agenda, is there?\u00a0 Ever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Lieutenant Governor FlanaganFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe:\u00a0 I Have Questions.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s Be Honest, You Just Don&#8217;t\u00a0Do\u00a0Answers. Lieutenant Governor Flanagan,\u00a0 I caught this tweet over the weekend: I&#8217;ve got two questions: 1.\u00a0 Does This Mean You&#8217;re Cutting Taxes?\u00a0\u00a0One of the main reasons families (who can&#8217;t afford to leave Minnesota) are &#8220;just scraping by&#8221; is Minnesota&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89774","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=89774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89775,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89774\/revisions\/89775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}