{"id":53878,"date":"2015-06-23T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53878"},"modified":"2015-06-21T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T18:37:02","slug":"as-fuzzy-as-rand-paul-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53878","title":{"rendered":"As Fuzzy As Rand Paul Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;on foreign policy and defense, the more I see of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/blow-up-the-tax-code-and-start-over-1434582592\">this kind of talk<\/a>, of a 14.5% flat income tax for individuals and businesses&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So on Thursday I am announcing an over $2 trillion tax cut that would repeal the entire IRS tax code\u2014more than 70,000 pages\u2014and replace it with a low, broad-based tax of 14.5% on individuals and businesses. I would eliminate nearly every special-interest loophole. The plan also eliminates the payroll tax on workers and several federal taxes outright, including gift and estate taxes, telephone taxes, and all duties and tariffs. I call this \u201cThe Fair and Flat Tax.\u201d . . .Even Mr. Obama\u2019s economic advisers tell him that the U.S. corporate tax code, which has the highest rates in the world (35%), is an economic drag. When an iconic American company like Burger King wants to renounce its citizenship for Canada because that country\u2019s tax rates are so much lower, there\u2019s a fundamental problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;the more I want him to remain a contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;on foreign policy and defense, the more I see of this kind of talk, of a 14.5% flat income tax for individuals and businesses&#8230;: So on Thursday I am announcing an over $2 trillion tax cut that would repeal the entire IRS tax code\u2014more than 70,000 pages\u2014and replace it with a low, broad-based tax of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,187,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-campaign-16","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878","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=53878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53902,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878\/revisions\/53902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}