{"id":18142,"date":"2011-02-15T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18142"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:37:08","slug":"the-budget-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18142","title":{"rendered":"The Budget Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday in the blog, while discussing the holes I suspect we&#8217;ll see in Governor Dayton&#8217;s budget to be released this morning, commenter &#8220;MyGovIsNuts&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18116#comment-89727\">proposed a bit of a game<\/a> to figure out what the Governor will do in his budget:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>#1: Blame Pawlenty<\/p>\n<p>#2: NOT blame the previous House and Senate (in DFL control)<\/p>\n<p>#3: Protect LGA for his buddies in Minneapols, St. Paul, and Duluth<\/p>\n<p>#4: Raise income taxes on at least one bracket<\/p>\n<p>#5: Open sales taxes to other items<\/p>\n<p>#6: Blame Pawlenty again<\/p>\n<p>#7: Refuse to defund or reduce one labor position in state government<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To that, I&#8217;ll add:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Propose the new 10-11% bracket for &#8220;the rich&#8221; &#8211; couples making over $130K<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cut contractors&#8221; &#8211; which will, inevitably, mean more union government permanent<\/li>\n<li>All day kindergarten, more &#8220;early childhood ed&#8221;&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Lots of talk about &#8220;jobs&#8221; &#8211; for AFSCME, SEIU, MFT and Teamsters workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your predictions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday in the blog, while discussing the holes I suspect we&#8217;ll see in Governor Dayton&#8217;s budget to be released this morning, commenter &#8220;MyGovIsNuts&#8221; proposed a bit of a game to figure out what the Governor will do in his budget: #1: Blame Pawlenty #2: NOT blame the previous House and Senate (in DFL control) #3: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18144,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions\/18144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}