{"id":20048,"date":"2015-03-24T10:13:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20048"},"modified":"2015-03-24T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:15:43","slug":"bernie-sanders-why-do-you-keep-saying-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/24\/bernie-sanders-why-do-you-keep-saying-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders, Why Do You Keep Saying This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders has this post about the deficit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senatorsanders\/photos\/a.91485152907.84764.9124187907\/10153164407702908\/?type=1&#038;permPage=1\" title=\"Sanders' Facebook post\" target=\"_blank\">on his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senatorsanders\/photos\/a.91485152907.84764.9124187907\/10153164407702908\/?type=1&#038;permPage=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpt1\/v\/t1.0-9\/11054527_10153164407702908_515632792988414126_n.png?oh=3264a58d3fafbdfdc106c5ed574e8bf1&#038;oe=5572981F&#038;__gda__=1433474719_fc2e8ece855edd467fab31a500f6ce99\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Bernie Sanders' poster\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stop, please stop talking about contributing to deficit reduction. We need to tax these millionaires and billionaires so that they won&#8217;t keep using their money to create the next financial bubble and collapse. We tax them so that we can spend the money usefully on infrastructure and investment in the country&#8217;s future without reducing the deficit one bit. Your concentration on the deficit is starting to get annoying, since I know, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/12\/prominent-mmt-advocate-stephanie-kelton-become-chief-economist-senate-budget-committee.html\" title=\"Announcement of Stephanie Kelton's appointment\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Kelton<\/a> knows that you know better.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Republicans who are willing to increase the deficit to no end in order to fight the next war know better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders has this post about the deficit on his Facebook page. Stop, please stop talking about contributing to deficit reduction. We need to tax these millionaires and billionaires so that they won&#8217;t keep using their money to create the next financial bubble and collapse. We tax them so that we can spend the money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20051,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048\/revisions\/20051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}