{"id":5876,"date":"2011-02-26T20:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T01:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2011-02-26T20:48:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T01:48:15","slug":"tax-breaks-vs-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/02\/26\/tax-breaks-vs-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a title=\"Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cuts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2011\/02\/tax_breaks_infographic.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Infographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cuts<\/strong><\/a> compares the size of some proposed budget cuts along side some tax breaks for the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you one line of the chart:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Programs At Risk<br \/>\n$44 billion &#8211; All programs at risk combined<\/p>\n<p>Tax breaks for the wealthy<br \/>\n$42 billion One-year cost of extending Bush tax cuts for top brackets (FY2012)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not sure if the $42 billion for the Bush tax breaks is a summation of the rest of the tax breaks in the chart or is a completely separate tax break.\u00a0 Read the article to see if you can figure it out.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I went back and added up all the other tax breaks and the come to about $46.7 billion.\u00a0 I guess this means that the Bush tax cuts are a separate item.\u00a0 In other words there is about $88 billion per year in identified tax cuts that could be rescinded to help balance the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article Infographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cuts compares the size of some proposed budget cuts along side some tax breaks for the wealthy. I&#8217;ll give you one line of the chart: Programs At Risk $44 billion &#8211; All programs at risk combined Tax breaks for the wealthy $42 billion One-year cost of extending Bush [&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-5876","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\/5876","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=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5880,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}