{"id":71151,"date":"2019-04-24T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71151"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:05:33","slug":"a-new-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71151","title":{"rendered":"A New Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MN Department of Revenue points out that Governor Walz&#8217;s Tax Orgy is going to hit&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;wait for it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;wait for it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;the poor hardest.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lowest-income-minnesotans-hit-hardest-by-gov-tim-walz-s-tax-plan-analysis-shows\/508995202\/\">Unexpectedly<\/a>, natch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s plan to increase taxes would hit the lowest-income Minnesotans the hardest, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/407382643\/Incidence-Analysis-of-Governor-Budget-2019\">new analysis by his own Department of Revenue<\/a>.<br>Minnesotans on the bottom half of the income ladder would absorb an average 9.9 % tax increase. For every $100 they earn, these Minnesotans would pay well more than an extra dollar in taxes. The poorest 10 % of Minnesotans would pay an extra $2.37 in taxes for every $100 they earn.<br>The upper half of Minnesotans would pay an additional 5.9 %, although the wealthy would wind up paying far more in actual dollars than lower-income Minnesotans.<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51246\">exactly what happened under Dayton<\/a>, although the media didn&#8217;t bother reporting that beyond the most basic lip service, either.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MN Department of Revenue points out that Governor Walz&#8217;s Tax Orgy is going to hit&#8230; &#8230;wait for it&#8230; &#8230;wait for it&#8230; &#8230;the poor hardest. Unexpectedly, natch. Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s plan to increase taxes would hit the lowest-income Minnesotans the hardest, according to a\u00a0new analysis by his own Department of Revenue.Minnesotans on the bottom half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71151","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=71151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71152,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71151\/revisions\/71152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}