{"id":1282,"date":"2004-08-13T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T17:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bushs-sales-tax\/"},"modified":"2004-08-13T10:05:43","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T17:05:43","slug":"bushs-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bushs-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Sales Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tri-Valley Herald Online - Local &amp; Regional News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trivalleyherald.com\/Stories\/0,1413,86~10669~2332083,00.html\">Tri-Valley Herald Online &#8211; Local &amp; Regional News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bush has suggested that overhauling the tax code would be a second-term priority if he is re-elected. While campaigning in Florida on Tuesday, he said replacing the income tax with a federal sales tax is &#8220;an interesting idea that we ought to explore seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry seized on Bush&#8217;s comments even as White House officials denied that any such plan is under consideration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you really want Bush and a Republican Congress overhauling the tax code and Social Security?  mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tri-Valley Herald Online &#8211; Local &amp; Regional News Bush has suggested that overhauling the tax code would be a second-term priority if he is re-elected. While campaigning in Florida on Tuesday, he said replacing the income tax with a federal sales tax is &#8220;an interesting idea that we ought to explore seriously.&#8221; Kerry seized on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bushs-sales-tax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush&#8217;s Sales Tax<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}