{"id":41723,"date":"2014-02-11T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41723"},"modified":"2014-02-11T07:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:18:05","slug":"41723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41723","title":{"rendered":"The New, Slacker Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you voluntarily reduce your income to avoid paying full price for child support, you are a deadbeat Dad.\u00a0 We want people to work so they can afford things like medical care for their kids.<\/p>\n<p>If you hide your income to avoid paying full state income taxes, you are a tax cheat.\u00a0 We want people to work, on-book, and pay their fair share.<\/p>\n<p>If you give away your income to qualify for nursing home care, you are disqualified from receiving it.\u00a0 We want people to pay for their own medical care, if they can.<\/p>\n<p>If you cut your hours, reduce your income, move it off-book, and make yourself poor on paper . . . you\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/marc-thiessen-obamacares-70-billion-pay-cut\/2014\/02\/10\/f4de89d6-9259-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">get Obama-care subsidies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t want people to work?\u00a0 Who&#8217;s going to pay for all the free unicorns and rainbows?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Obama administration&#8217;s whole &#8220;reducing the need to work&#8221; schtick reminds me of a joke from the nineties; &#8220;Q: \u00a0How many Microsoft developers does it take to change a light bulb? \u00a0A: \u00a0None; Bill Gates will declare Darkness\u00a0\u2122 the new standard&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If you voluntarily reduce your income to avoid paying full price for child support, you are a deadbeat Dad.\u00a0 We want people to work so they can afford things like medical care for their kids. If you hide your income to avoid paying full state income taxes, you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,64,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-president-obama","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723","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=41723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41726,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723\/revisions\/41726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}