{"id":6835,"date":"2011-07-23T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2011-07-23T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:52:07","slug":"obama-and-the-gang-of-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/23\/obama-and-the-gang-of-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the &#8220;Gang of Six&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"460\" height=\"278\"><param name=\"width\" value=\"460\"\/><param name=\"height\" value=\"278\"\/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h-LaWg1KmEA&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h-LaWg1KmEA&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;showsearch=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"278\"  allowfullscreen=\"true\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">More at The Real News<\/a><br \/><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Form the RawStory article Obama and the &#8220;Gang of Six&#8221; from which I got the above video:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJames K. Galbraith: &#8220;Gang of Six&#8221; Plan is all about cuts not increased taxes; Obama represents Wall Street faction of Democratic Party\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first heard that the Gang Of 6 proposal would lower the top marginal income tax rate rather than raise it, I felt that this would unlikely raise enough revenue.  Galbraith comes right out and says what I wanted to try to not to believe, <strong>the proposal to raise taxes will in fact be a tax cut for the wealthy<\/strong>.  In the usual lingo of politics, words have the opposite meaning to politicians as from what they mean to ordinary people in every day usage.<\/p>\n<p>Even George H. W. Bush called this kind of thinking by politicians <q>Voodoo economics.<\/q><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More at The Real News Form the RawStory article Obama and the &#8220;Gang of Six&#8221; from which I got the above video: James K. Galbraith: &#8220;Gang of Six&#8221; Plan is all about cuts not increased taxes; Obama represents Wall Street faction of Democratic Party When I first heard that the Gang Of 6 proposal would [&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-6835","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\/6835","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=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6839,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}