{"id":65735,"date":"2018-01-19T05:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65735"},"modified":"2018-01-19T05:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:52:34","slug":"i-cant-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65735","title":{"rendered":"I Can\u2019t Wait&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to see how the Democrats and the media (pardon the redundancy) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/01\/17\/apple-announces-350-billion-investment-20k-jobs-over-5-years.html\">try to paint this <\/a>as a tile toxic side effect of the Republican tax reform plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The headline from Apple is that it will make a $350 billion &#8220;contribution&#8221; to the U.S. economy over the next five years, although it&#8217;s unclear exactly how the company came to that number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The company also promised to create 20,000 new jobs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/01\/17\/apple-will-open-a-second-campus-in-the-u-s.html\">and open a new campus<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It said it expects to pay about $38 billion in taxes for the horde of cash it plans to bring back to the United States. This implies it will repatriate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/01\/17\/it-looks-like-apple-is-bringing-back-home-nearly-all-of-its-250-billion-foreign-cash.html\">virtually all of its $250 billion<\/a> in overseas cash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It will be an amazingly creative exercise, when it happens. But it will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to see how the Democrats and the media (pardon the redundancy) try to paint this as a tile toxic side effect of the Republican tax reform plan. The headline from Apple is that it will make a $350 billion &#8220;contribution&#8221; to the U.S. economy over the next five years, although it&#8217;s unclear exactly how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65735","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=65735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65736,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65735\/revisions\/65736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}