{"id":36770,"date":"2013-07-24T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36770"},"modified":"2013-07-24T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:10:53","slug":"congress-gets-mad-at-karzais-exit-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36770","title":{"rendered":"Congress gets mad at Karzai&#8217;s &#8220;exit tax&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked last week about those ingrates in Afghanistan who want us to pay a fee each container of our equipment that we want to send back to the States. I guess congress has had enough reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/congress-threatens-afghanistan-over-us-exit-taxes-1.231741\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;I have seen some stupid things from that government,&#8221; said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who co-sponsored the amendment. &#8220;I have seen some things that make you wonder what universe they live in. But this one just went beyond the pale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., agreed, calling talk of an exit tax on U.S. property &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; after a dozen years of American-led stabilization efforts in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Their threat: To withhold $5 in foreign aid to Afghanistan for every $1 in fees imposed on the United States for repatriating any property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We should also level every school and hospital we built over there at our taxpayers&#8217; expense, including Karzai&#8217;s residence, preferably while he&#8217;s still inside. And build a yellow brick road from Pakistan to Kabul so the Taliban doesn&#8217;t get lost on their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked last week about those ingrates in Afghanistan who want us to pay a fee &hellip; <a title=\"Congress gets mad at Karzai&#8217;s &#8220;exit tax&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36770\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress gets mad at Karzai&#8217;s &#8220;exit tax&#8221;<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36770","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=36770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}