{"id":4055,"date":"2011-09-22T08:15:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2011-09-22T08:27:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:27:49","slug":"i-did-not-raise-taxes-i-did-not-raise-taxes-bigot-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4055","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I didn&#8217;t raise taxes. I didn&#8217;t raise taxes.&#8221; [BIGOT ALERT]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Steve Lindstrom cartoons in the Trib. His is a very stripped down strip. No clutter just simple visual metaphors. Today&#8217;s was another smart strip which I regret the Trib does not feature on its website for me to link to. <\/p>\n<p>It was about the recently <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4051\">chopped up<\/a> homestead tax credit which I&#8217;d forgotten about when <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4051\">I blogged<\/a> about the costs of school operating levies yesterday.  I&#8217;d forgotten, because its hard to keep up with the GOP these days. Republicans took it away and poor homeowners will be hit particularly hard leading to a 5.7% increase in Duluth Area property taxes. This at a time when the County is bumping up its property taxes and the School District is asking the state to grant it a <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3803\">$15 million increase<\/a> in Red Plan &#8211; with no vote of course, although the School Board will be asking voters for additional operating levies in a referendum. <\/p>\n<p>Lindstrom&#8217;s cartoon showed a cursing homeowner perched on his home&#8217;s roof watching as a smug Elephant, Republican legislators, walks away with his ladder labled &#8220;homestead credit.&#8221; The Pachyderm is repeating to himself, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t raise taxes.&#8221; It was ludicrous as a surgeon assuring himself that he didn&#8217;t make a patient limp by amputating his leg. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Steve Lindstrom cartoons in the Trib. His is a very stripped down strip. No clutter just simple visual metaphors. Today&#8217;s was another&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055"}],"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=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}