{"id":11850,"date":"2012-01-26T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11850"},"modified":"2012-01-26T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:07:18","slug":"one-more-short-note-on-the-state-of-the-union-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11850","title":{"rendered":"One More Short Note On The State Of The Union Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all heard about the excessive tax burden of Warren Buffett&#8217;s Secretary (who makes more than $200,000 per year), but my sympathy for this lady is running a little thin. I am glad she makes what she makes, but the fact that she is overtaxed has nothing to do with what Mr. Buffett pays in taxes&#8211;it has to do with the fact that the government is overspent.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/warren-buffett-secretary-homes-654812\">The Smoking Gun<\/a>\u00a0pointed out that this poor overtaxed lady just bought\u00a0\u00a0a second home in Arizona, complete with a swimming pool and a \u201cprofessional PGA putting green,\u201d according to real estate records.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The principal Bosanek residence is in Bellevue, Nebraska, several miles from Buffett\u2019s corporate headquarters in Omaha. The couple\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/dr\/teg\/tsg\/release\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/nebraskahome.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[]\">2568-square-foot home<\/a>, built in 2000, also has four bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths. But the modest property, which Sarpy County assessors last year valued at $217,716, offers no outdoor amenities for swimmers or golfers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All\u00a0 of us are overtaxed. Mr. Buffett is not undertaxed. The government is overspent.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=98d58a15-97e8-44af-b07d-881636e393db\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all heard about the excessive tax burden of Warren Buffett&#8217;s Secretary (who makes more than $200,000 per year), but my sympathy for this lady is running a little thin. I am glad she makes what she makes, but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11850\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,97,686,1948,280,277,1949],"class_list":["post-11850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona","tag-barack-obama","tag-buffett","tag-buffett-rule","tag-tax","tag-warren-buffett","tag-warren-buffetts-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11851,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions\/11851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}