{"id":3392,"date":"2008-10-01T21:54:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2008-10-13T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:23:44","slug":"over-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3392","title":{"rendered":"Over the River&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>but Still in the Woods, to The House\u00a0of Representatives we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20081001\/REG\/810019964\/-1\/INBreakingNews01\">The Senate\u2019s revised bill sweetened the original package<\/a> by tacking on a number of tax breaks and other perks in the hopes of swaying the House to reverse its original veto.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The add-ons include tax breaks for businesses, users of alternative energy and hurricane victims as well as relief from the alternative minimum tax.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it would boost the limit on FDIC-insured bank deposits to $250,000 from $100,000 for one year.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a bill boosting improved health insurance for mental health was wrapped into the package.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Say again?\u00a0Was that Pelosi&#8217;s idea?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In all, the add-ons bring the potential package cost to over $800 billion, according to published reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s an extra $100 Billion?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The revised bailout received the support of both presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>American taxpayers have swamped many representatives\u2019 offices with e-mails and phone calls, with overwhelming majority urging them to vote down the bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and they were listening last time. Brace yourself. This may not be over yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>but Still in the Woods, to The House\u00a0of Representatives we go&#8230; The Senate\u2019s revised bill sweetened the original package by tacking on a number of tax breaks and other perks in the hopes of swaying the House to reverse its original veto. The add-ons include tax breaks for businesses, users of alternative energy and hurricane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}