{"id":81631,"date":"2022-04-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81631"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:31:41","slug":"everything-old-is-new-and-democrat-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81631","title":{"rendered":"Everything Old Is New And Democrat Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mid-2010s.  Democrats chatter up a storm about Kansas, whose conservative governor and legislature lowered taxes without cutting spending, leading to all sorts of financial issues.  Democrats (pointedly ignoring the success of many conservative states that held lines on both taxes and spending with superlative results) railed on Kansas as a sign that conservative governance couldn&#8217;t work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022:   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/04\/illinois-democrats-are-gaming-the-tax-system-for-short-term-political-gain\/\">Democrats cut taxes for short-term gain, ignoring spending<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-2010s. Democrats chatter up a storm about Kansas, whose conservative governor and legislature lowered taxes without cutting spending, leading to all sorts of financial issues. Democrats (pointedly ignoring the success of many conservative states that held lines on both taxes and spending with superlative results) railed on Kansas as a sign that conservative governance couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81631","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=81631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81632,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81631\/revisions\/81632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}