{"id":10260,"date":"2010-04-22T07:04:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10260"},"modified":"2010-04-22T07:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:04:01","slug":"to-the-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10260","title":{"rendered":"To The Cleaners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about the time I went to the Al Franken Obamacare rally.\u00a0 And as they came out of the rally, and engaged in the odd debate or argument with us protesters, many of them duly parrotted the Obama party line; &#8220;he&#8217;s cutting your taxes&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not, anyway &#8211; and now, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100421\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_obama_tax\">Obama wants to switch to switch on the tax afterburner:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>VAT Taxes are a money machine.\u00a0 They also sap money from every stage of the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about the time I went to the Al Franken Obamacare rally.\u00a0 And as they came out of the rally, and engaged in the odd debate or argument with us protesters, many of them duly parrotted the Obama party line; &#8220;he&#8217;s cutting your taxes&#8221;! They&#8217;re not, anyway &#8211; and now, Obama wants to switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10261,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions\/10261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}