{"id":151,"date":"2010-10-24T22:32:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T22:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-10-25T01:11:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T01:11:02","slug":"how-many-times-do-we-have-to-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"How many times do we have to say it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/economistsview.typepad.com\/economistsview\/2010\/10\/one-more-time-with-gusto-tax-cuts-do-not-pay-for-themselves.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;One More Time with Gusto: Tax Cuts Do Not Pay for Themselves&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>(from the Economist&#8217;s View)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Some Republican Senate candidates have suggested that extending the Bush  tax  cuts &#8230; will  actually be  good for the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bottom line, as the economic growth  that results will  more than offset the trillions of dollars in lost  revenue. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/09\/20\/buck-magic-deficit-reduction\/\">By  extending tax cuts you pay down the deficit<\/a>, you grow the economy by giving  people more money,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Colorado Republican Ken Buck.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>But, of course, the Bush tax cuts did not even come close to paying for  themselves. The Bush tax cuts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/cms\/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=3036\">cost<\/a> us around  $1.7 trillion in revenue from 2001 through 2008, in part  because of weak output and job growth following the cuts &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The disappointing part is that the press still lets them get away with this&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>If the press won&#8217;t call them on this obvious falsehood, how can we  trust them on anything? &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One More Time with Gusto: Tax Cuts Do Not Pay for Themselves&#8221; (from the Economist&#8217;s View) Some Republican Senate candidates have suggested that extending the Bush tax cuts &#8230; will actually be good for the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bottom line, as the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}