{"id":1117,"date":"2004-02-19T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T00:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/taxcut-is-code-for-gutting-the-government\/"},"modified":"2004-02-19T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T00:34:47","slug":"taxcut-is-code-for-gutting-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/taxcut-is-code-for-gutting-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Taxcut’ is code for gutting the government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush makes pitch for making tax cuts permanent<\/a><\/p>\n

President Bush on Thursday pressed his election-year complaints against ”tax raisers and spenders in Washington,” arguing that failure to make administration-backed tax cuts permanent would raise taxpayers’ bills by billions.<\/b><\/p>\n

”When you hear people say, ‘Oh, let’s just let the tax cuts expire,’ it’s a tax increase,” Bush said in an event at the White House to promote his economic record. ”It’s a code word<\/i> for, ‘I’m raising your taxes,’<\/b> to increase the amount of money we have to spend here in Washington on new programs, on programs that meet a particular political desire of the appropriators.”<\/p>\n

These tax cuts were a big mistake, but now any move to correct that mistake can be attacked simple-mindedly<\/b> as an increase. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush makes pitch for making tax cuts permanent President Bush on Thursday pressed his election-year complaints against ”tax raisers and spenders in Washington,” arguing that failure to make administration-backed tax cuts permanent would raise taxpayers’ bills by billions. ”When you hear people say, ‘Oh, let’s just let the tax cuts expire,’ it’s a tax increase,” … Continue reading ‘Taxcut’ is code for gutting the government<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}