{"id":3793,"date":"2011-07-14T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2011-07-14T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:46:54","slug":"millionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3793","title":{"rendered":"Millionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dayton won public office by saying he wanted to raise the taxes on millionaires. Granted, he only won a plurality of the vote but never mind. It turns out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vxec.com\/2011\/07\/poll-80-percent-say-tax-millionaires-more\/\">majority of Minnesotans<\/a> think this is a good idea. (Meaning a majority of Minnesotans disagree with their GOP legislators)<\/p>\n<p>I personally don&#8217;t like picking on Millionaires. I would prefer that everybody who can afford it should pay more without picking on the rich. <\/p>\n<p>Still, its worth remembering that we aren&#8217;t taxing million dollar incomes at the 90% rate like we were in Eisenhower&#8217;s Era. And just who is a millionaire anyway? I recall when I was a kid assuming that ownership of a million dollars of assets qualified one as a millionaire. That was the Era of $20,000 houses and you didn&#8217;t have to earn a million a year to be a millionaire. In fact, lots of frugal folks who saved seriously became millionaires despite having never earned large incomes.  People like that would never have paid Dayton&#8217;s taxes because their incomes would have fallen fall short of a million a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dayton won public office by saying he wanted to raise the taxes on millionaires. Granted, he only won a plurality of the vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,21,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-own-party","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","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=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}