{"id":26580,"date":"2011-09-20T09:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26580"},"modified":"2011-09-20T09:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:12:28","slug":"just-an-excuse-to-raise-taxes-on-the-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26580","title":{"rendered":"Just an excuse to raise taxes on the wealthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/in-debt-plan-mr-obama-goes-medium\/2011\/09\/19\/gIQAqWLagK_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> has finally decided to fact-check the President, and of course, they come to the decision that his plan doesn&#8217;t raise taxes enough&#8230;because, you know that&#8217;s all the Liberals want to do. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the package in the end may serve more as a campaign document. If so, that would be a shame \u2014 most of all for a country that cannot keep putting off the day of fiscal reckoning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, why shouldn&#8217;t it look like a campaign document&#8230;this administration has been in campaign mode since 2006, why should they stop now? In another piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/fact-checking-obamas-rose-garden-statement-on-taxes-and-spending\/2011\/09\/19\/gIQAIVhXgK_blog.html\">WaPost&#8217;s Glenn Kessler<\/a> picks apart the proposal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Analysts have decreed that President Obama\u2019s speech in the Rose Garden on Monday was a political statement designed to rally his political base rather than engage in real negotiations with Republicans on Capitol Hill&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the whole purpose of the proposal is strictly to raise taxes on the wealthy to mollify the Left&#8230;it&#8217;s purely class warfare. But I don&#8217;t see anyone who thinks that everyone should shoulder their &#8220;fair share&#8221; recommending that Congress cut their staffs or reduce their pensions. So which classes are doing battle here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has finally decided to fact-check the President, and of course, they come to &hellip; <a title=\"Just an excuse to raise taxes on the wealthy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26580\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just an excuse to raise taxes on the wealthy<\/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":[46,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26580","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=26580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}