{"id":4516,"date":"2010-08-23T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2010-08-23T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T18:17:00","slug":"republicans-want-680billion-tax-cut-exclusively-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/23\/republicans-want-680billion-tax-cut-exclusively-for-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Want $680Billion Tax Cut Exclusively For The Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tax Cut For The Rich\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/23\/opinion\/23krugman.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Paul Krugman explains<\/strong><\/a> in his column how the Republicans&#8217; plan gives a $680 billion tax cut to the rich that is not in Obama&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Making all of the Bush tax cuts permanent, as opposed to following the Obama proposal, would cost the federal government $680 billion in revenue over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Only a tiny fraction of small-business owners would receive any tax break at all.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to think of a less cost-effective way to help the economy than giving money to people who already have plenty, and aren\u2019t likely to spend a windfall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman explains in his column how the Republicans&#8217; plan gives a $680 billion tax cut to the rich that is not in Obama&#8217;s plan. Making all of the Bush tax cuts permanent, as opposed to following the Obama proposal, would cost the federal government $680 billion in revenue over the next 10 years. Only [&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-4516","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\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}