{"id":1618,"date":"2005-08-31T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/half-true\/"},"modified":"2005-08-31T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T23:36:11","slug":"half-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/half-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A Half-true Attack on McCain - FactCheck.org\" href=\"http:\/\/factcheck.org\/article343.html\">A Half-true Attack on McCain &#8211; FactCheck.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary <\/p>\n<p>The conservative anti-tax group Club for Growth targeted 2008 presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain with a TV ad in New Hampshire. It contains a half-true claim that McCain would &#8220;keep the death tax.&#8221; In fact, McCain has long advocated reducing the number subject to the tax, so that it falls only on the estates of multi-millionaires.<\/p>\n<p>The ad also misleads viewers by saying, &#8220;when you die, the IRS can tax you again. Taking as much as 55 percent of everything you&#8217;ve saved for your children.&#8221; In fact, only estates exceeding $1.5 million currently pay any tax on that wealth. <strong>It fell on fewer than 1 percent of all Americans who died in 2004<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Half-true Attack on McCain &#8211; FactCheck.org Summary The conservative anti-tax group Club for Growth targeted 2008 presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain with a TV ad in New Hampshire. It contains a half-true claim that McCain would &#8220;keep the death tax.&#8221; In fact, McCain has long advocated reducing the number subject to the tax, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/half-true\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Half-true<\/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-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}