{"id":20893,"date":"2010-10-19T18:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T22:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20893"},"modified":"2010-10-19T18:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T22:32:40","slug":"more-votevets-bs-campaign-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20893","title":{"rendered":"More VoteVets BS campaign ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vote Vets is running this ad against Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania to prop up his adversary, Joe Sestak, in the race for the Senate formerly occupied by Arlen Specter;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j48SB88Prtw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j48SB88Prtw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Sounds pretty bad, huh? Well, TSO sends this from <a href=\"http:\/\/factcheck.org\/2010\/10\/toss-ups-pennsylvania-cash-attack\/\">FactCheck.org<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VoteVets.org Action Fund, a left-leaning veterans group, is up with an ad that claims Republican Pat Toomey  supports letting Wall Street executives keep &#8220;every penny of their bonuses.&#8221; It\u2019s true that he opposed a bill that would have imposed a 90 percent tax on bonuses for executives at bailed-out banks. But that\u2019s not the same as letting executives keep &#8220;every penny,&#8221; since normal tax rates still apply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that and it was a 90% tax &#8211; I don&#8217;t think anyone should get taxed on money they got legally so that they can only get 10% of the payment. No one. What kind of precedent would that set? It was just thirty years ago that we got rid of 70% marginal tax rates. And they were already liable for 35% in income taxes anyway &#8211; that&#8217;s not attractive either. So the &#8220;every penny&#8221; BS is an attempt by VoteVets to mislead.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20731\">like I said in October<\/a>, where were they when Murtha was threatening to cut out existing bonuses? <\/p>\n<p>Oh, I&#8217;m not particularly happy about seeing veterans complaining that they didn&#8217;t get a bonus for combat. Are we that mercenary now? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote Vets is running this ad against Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania to prop up his adversary, &hellip; <a title=\"More VoteVets BS campaign ad\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20893\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More VoteVets BS campaign ad<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}