On “Morning Edition”.<\/p>\n
NPR Reporter: \u00a0“…if it weren’t for the “Alternative Minimum Tax”, Trump would have paid a net tax rate of 3%”.<\/p>\n
NPR Anchor: \u00a0“Right – but there\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>an alternative minimum tax, and he paid a net rate of about 25% – considerably higher than Barack Obama<\/a>\u00a0and double what\u00a0Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u00a0paid. \u00a0So why the pointless “what if?” \u00a0 You’re “reporting” a complete nothingburger, here.”<\/p>\n (UPDATE: \u00a0The anchor never said any of that. \u00a0It was just a dream. \u00a0The “reporter’s”\u00a0line is pretty accurate, though).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On “Morning Edition”. NPR Reporter: \u00a0“…if it weren’t for the “Alternative Minimum Tax”, Trump would have paid a net tax rate of 3%”. NPR Anchor: \u00a0“Right – but there\u00a0was\u00a0an alternative minimum tax, and he paid a net rate of about 25% – considerably higher than Barack Obama\u00a0and double what\u00a0Bernie Sanders\u00a0paid. \u00a0So why the pointless “what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,367,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-trump","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62432","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=62432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62433,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62432\/revisions\/62433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}