{"id":5975,"date":"2011-04-13T10:37:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T15:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2011-04-18T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T21:20:44","slug":"introducing-the-peoples-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/04\/13\/introducing-the-peoples-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the people&#8217;s budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read <a title=\"Rep. Michael Honda Article\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/economy-a-budget\/154955-introducing-the-peoples-budget\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Introducing the people&#8217;s budget<\/strong><\/a> by Rep. Michael Honda (D-Calif.) for a teaser on a better way to fix the budget problems of the federal government.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We make the tax code fair, asking the wealthiest individuals, corporations hiding money overseas, oil companies raking in record profits and Wall Street banks that gambled away our money to pay their fair share. We fix roads, bridges and waterways, we build a world-class high-speed rail system and broadband, we end our addiction to oil and the endless wars that come with it, we meet our obligations to seniors and we educate our children for the global workforce. Our budget does all this while eliminating the deficit, cutting nearly $1 trillion in waste, and reducing debt burden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>April 18, 2011<\/p>\n<p>I found a <a title=\"A few details of the proposal\" href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/CPC.Budget.112th.Memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>link to a summary of the actual proposal<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Introducing the people&#8217;s budget by Rep. Michael Honda (D-Calif.) for a teaser on a better way to fix the budget problems of the federal government. We make the tax code fair, asking the wealthiest individuals, corporations hiding money overseas, oil companies raking in record profits and Wall Street banks that gambled away our 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-5975","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\/5975","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=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5994,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}