{"id":82673,"date":"2022-07-01T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82673"},"modified":"2022-07-01T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T09:41:10","slug":"think-walz-checks-only-gassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82673","title":{"rendered":"Think \u201cWalz Checks\u201d, Only Gassy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Modern Monetary Theory says the government can borrow and spend as much as it likes without consequences.  If we can afford a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-holidays-government-and-politics-ae1707c9e76f690a601d4e4e8e197b0c?taid=62b0a47191e1ec0001c31526&#038;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&#038;utm_medium=AP&#038;utm_source=Facebook\">gas tax holiday<\/a>, why not an income tax holiday, a social security tax holiday, a liquor tax holiday?  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Or is MMT a lie and the gas tax holiday simply at attempt at buying votes with taxpayer money?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is, of course, a purely academic exercise, like so much of the policy big left has been foisting on this country for the past hundred years and change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Modern Monetary Theory says the government can borrow and spend as much as it likes without consequences. If we can afford a gas tax holiday, why not an income tax holiday, a social security tax holiday, a liquor tax holiday? Or is MMT a lie and the gas tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,321,57,68,308,449,69,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-to-the-70s-economy-and-the-market","category-big-left","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-entitled-america","category-lets-go-brandon","category-socialism","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82673","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=82673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82674,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82673\/revisions\/82674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}