{"id":1993,"date":"2010-06-22T13:48:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2010-06-22T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:48:35","slug":"playing_politics_with_the_taxp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"Playing Politics With The Taxpayers&#8217; Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/104635-dems-wont-pass-budget?sms_ss=facebook\">The Hill<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting today that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) will confirm in a speech today that the Democrats will not pass a budget in 2010.&nbsp; Meanwhile, the Democrats are vowing to cut spending when they do pass a budget.&nbsp; Represenative Hoyer stated, &#8220;It isn&#8217;t possible to debate and pass a realistic, long-term budget until we&#8217;ve considered the bipartisan commission&#8217;s deficit-reduction plan, which is expected in December.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This is political gobbledygook!&nbsp; Let me translate.&nbsp; The only way the Democrats ever attempted to balance the budget was to raise taxes&#8211;it has never occurred to them to cut spending.&nbsp; So this is what they are thinking: &nbsp;It would be stupid to raise taxes just before an election.&nbsp; Maybe the voters won&#8217;t realize that when the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year, everyone&#8217;s taxes will be going up.&nbsp; Maybe we can get a one percent value added tax (VAT) passed after the election, and no one will be upset because it&#8217;s only one percent.&nbsp; Then next time we take Congress we can raise it!<\/p>\n<p>If you want your country and your wallet back, vote Republican in November!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill&nbsp;is reporting today that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) will confirm in a speech today that the Democrats will not pass a budget in 2010.&nbsp; Meanwhile, the Democrats are vowing to cut spending when they do pass a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}