{"id":1760,"date":"2009-02-21T09:54:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:55:47","slug":"ralph-doty-rediscovers-the-evil-of-regressive-taxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Doty rediscovers the evil of regressive taxation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Doty&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/112784\/\">column today <\/a>in the Budgeteer hearkens back to his halcyon days as a state senator when he helped usher in the &#8220;Minnesota Miracle.&#8221; This was a significant change in the funding of public education which put most of the burden on state income and sales taxes and reduced reliance of schools on locally raised property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>He says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You see, while I agree that the best tax is no tax at all (remember, taxes are the price we pay for civilization), the income tax is the fairest of all. If you don&#8217;t earn money, you don&#8217;t pay an income tax. <\/p>\n<p>The most regressive is the property tax, because even if you&#8217;re out of work and have no income, or if you&#8217;re a retiree with limited income and you own a home, you must pay the tax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Too bad Ralph has been a cheerleader for the Red Plan which boosted the regressive local property tax for residents of the Duluth School District an average of 56% in 2008 over 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Doty&#8217;s column today in the Budgeteer hearkens back to his halcyon days as a state senator when he helped usher in the &#8220;Minnesota&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20818,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/20818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}