{"id":537,"date":"2007-08-03T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/03\/end-the-war-raise-the-taxes\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T17:27:09","slug":"end-the-war-raise-the-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"End the war; raise the taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bridge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/08\/03\/bridge.collapse\/index.html?section=cnn_latest\" target=\"_blank\">collapses in Minnesota<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and everyone automatically assumes the only answer is to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/brent-baker\/2007\/08\/02\/couric-presumes-taxes-must-be-raised-repair-infrastructure\" target=\"_blank\">raise Federal taxes<\/a>. Well, except Barney Frank &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/geoffrey-dickens\/2007\/08\/02\/hardballs-response-bridge-tragedy-raise-taxes\" target=\"_blank\">he has a two-point plan<\/a>. End the war in Iraq (he&#8217;s careful to say Iraq specifically, otherwise someone might think he&#8217;s a crackpot who wants to end the war against Pakistan)\u00c2\u00a0and raise taxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypost.org\/cgi-bin\/readart.cgi?ArtNum=195823\" target=\"_blank\">LibertyPost <\/a>records some of the mooniest\/battiest internet posts from the Democrat Underground while <a href=\"http:\/\/blackandright.mensnewsdaily.com\/2007\/08\/02\/minneapolis-bridge-collapse-bushs-fault\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Parks, of Black and Right<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0ventures into the Daily Kos.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Can someone tell me why a taxpayer in Arizona should pay money out of his earnings so someone in Minnesota doesn&#8217;t have to drive around a body of water? Why should we abandon our worldwide struggle for national security to repair potholes in South Dakota?<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course, the real answer is that any\u00c2\u00a0straw\u00c2\u00a0the Democrats can grasp\u00c2\u00a0they use. They blamed the Republicans for two hurricanes, I guess they blame them for bridge collapses, too. Just so long as the people who vote remember that Federal government isn&#8217;t the answer to every-fricken-question-ever-asked.<\/p>\n<p>I remember in 1992, the Democrats blamed the President&#8217;s father for Hurricane Andrew and when he expanded the capabilities of FEMA (which was little more than a phone bank), the Democrats accused him of &#8220;growing government&#8221; in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Any group of people who thought that Al Gore and John Kerry were the best choices for the last two presidential races certainly don&#8217;t have the answer to two difficult questions &#8211; especially if the only answer they can come up with is &#8220;end the war and raise taxes&#8221;. A two-year-old could have think that one up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bridge collapses in Minnesota\u00c2\u00a0and everyone automatically assumes the only answer is to raise Federal taxes. &hellip; <a title=\"End the war; raise the taxes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=537\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End the war; raise the taxes<\/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":[8,11,5,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-economy","category-politics","category-society","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}