{"id":10951,"date":"2009-05-27T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10951"},"modified":"2009-05-27T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T17:26:05","slug":"any-obama-supporters-want-to-defend-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10951","title":{"rendered":"Any Obama Supporters Want to Defend This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone wanted to see the tea parties get really out of control just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/26\/AR2009052602909.html\">try to pass this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a White House conference earlier this year on the government&#8217;s budget problems, a roomful of tax experts pleaded with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to consider a VAT&#8230; last month, after wrestling with the White House over the massive deficits projected under Obama&#8217;s policies, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee declared that a VAT should be part of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a growing awareness of the need for fundamental tax reform,&#8221; Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said in an interview. &#8220;I think a VAT and a high-end income tax have got to be on the table.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A VAT is a tax on the transfer of goods and services that ultimately is borne by the consumer. Highly visible, it would increase the cost of just about everything, from a carton of eggs to a visit with a lawyer. It is also hugely regressive, falling heavily on the poor. But VAT advocates say those negatives could be offset by using the proceeds to pay for health care for every American &#8212; a tangible benefit that would be highly valuable to low-income families&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose this means that 95% of Americans will stop eating.  Otherwise his whole changey-hopey campaign was a damn sham and over 50 million dumb asses bought it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone wanted to see the tea parties get really out of control just try to &hellip; <a title=\"Any Obama Supporters Want to Defend This?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10951\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Any Obama Supporters Want to Defend This?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}