{"id":87660,"date":"2024-06-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87660"},"modified":"2024-06-03T07:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T12:53:31","slug":"your-tax-dollars-hard-at-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87660","title":{"rendered":"Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mayor Melvin Carter &#8211; who makes $132K a year &#8211; thanks &#8220;the President&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minnesota mayor thanks President Biden for canceling his student loans <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k558OFCuaE\">https:\/\/t.co\/k558OFCuaE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1797404124612333869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For <s>wiping out his student debt<\/s> transferring his student debt to America&#8217;s plumbers, truck drivers, waitresses and warehouse pickers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, Mr. President! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SjaNekU3ra\">https:\/\/t.co\/SjaNekU3ra<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mQeqm2nt9X\">pic.twitter.com\/mQeqm2nt9X<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Melvin Carter (@melvincarter3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/melvincarter3\/status\/1795994220387307734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what bothers me more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The President ignoring the SCOTUS and just going ahead and <em>buying <\/em>the votes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doing it for a vote that was never going to go to anyone but Biden anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Graft is bad.  Redundant graft is worse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Melvin Carter &#8211; who makes $132K a year &#8211; thanks &#8220;the President&#8221;&#8230; For wiping out his student debt transferring his student debt to America&#8217;s plumbers, truck drivers, waitresses and warehouse pickers: I&#8217;m not sure what bothers me more: Graft is bad. Redundant graft is worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87660","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=87660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87661,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87660\/revisions\/87661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}