{"id":90034,"date":"2025-11-20T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90034"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:12:13","slug":"90034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90034","title":{"rendered":"The Honor System For The Dishonorable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How open is the state&#8217;s ruinous new &#8220;family leave&#8221; law to Minnesota businesses?<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature has barely begun to count the ways. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Representative Marion Rarick is counting:<\/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\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of my biggest concerns about the possibility of abuse\/fraud in MN Paid Family And Medical Leave is the part where between 1 and 49 family members or (anyone who has established an expectation of care to another) can, at the same time, all provide care to one person\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXlS0qN9sk\">https:\/\/t.co\/MXlS0qN9sk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rep. Marion (O&#39;Neill) Rarick (@MarionONeill1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarionONeill1\/status\/1991322877304394115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is literally nothing preventing an entire extended family from chucking daily life on the company dime for six months &#8211; on the honor system. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I know businesses that have already left Minnesota due to this provision. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why, it&#8217;s almost as if putting a bunch of Sandy Feists and Andy Smiths into a room with unlimited authority was a terrible idea. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost as if putting a bunch of Sandy Feists and Andy Smiths into a room with unlimited authority was a terrible idea. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,320,51,374,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034","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=90034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90036,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034\/revisions\/90036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}