{"id":26777,"date":"2015-10-21T19:23:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26777"},"modified":"2015-10-21T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:23:03","slug":"there-really-is-no-free-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26777","title":{"rendered":"There Really Is No Free Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There really is no <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National School Lunch Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_School_Lunch_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">free lunch<\/a> (unless your parents or grandparents provide you with one!). Unfortunately, a substantial percentage of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> voters have not figured that out yet.<\/p>\n<p>The following video is posted on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">YouTube<\/a>. It is from &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"This Week (ABC TV series)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">This Week with George Stephanopoulos<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RSp0L64CiMg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"George Stephanopoulos\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/author\/george_stephanopoulos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">George\u00a0Stephanopoulos<\/a> rightly observed that all of the free things <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bernie Sanders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> was promising would cost money.<\/p>\n<p>An article at <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertarianrepublic.com\/bernie-sanders-yes-i-will-raise-taxes-on-everybody\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Libertarian Republic<\/a> quotes the response:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cI think if you\u2019re looking about guaranteeing paid family and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sick leave\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sick_leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">medical leave<\/a>, which virtually every other major country has\u2026 that will require a small increase in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Payroll tax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Payroll_tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">payroll tax<\/a>,\u201d Sanders said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThat\u2019s going to hit everybody,\u201d the host remarked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThat would\u2013 yeah, that would,\u201d Bernie acknowledges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Of course, when you\u2019re calling for $18 trillion in new spending (around $2 trillion more than the nation\u2019s entire <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gross domestic product\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gross_domestic_product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">GDP<\/a>), you are going to get inventive with how to pay for it. Bernie will raise taxes on everyone and that\u2019s just the kicker. If Sanders were to become president, he would severely devalue our dollar to enable spending, the results of which would be inflation and a higher cost of living for everybody.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Bernie! You\u2019re supposed to promise them\u00a0<em>free<\/em> things\u2013 now you\u2019ve spilled the beans that people will have to pay for these things. Think of how disillusioned you supporters will be when they find out you want to tax\u00a0<em>them<\/em> more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The average low-information voter would probably find a way to blame the Republicans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There really is no free lunch (unless your parents or grandparents provide you with one!). Unfortunately, a substantial percentage of American voters have not figured that out yet. The following video is posted on YouTube. It is from &#8220;This Week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26777\">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":[7078,712,9481,4440,9480],"class_list":["post-26777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-free-lunch","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-this-week-with-george-stephanopoulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777","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=26777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26778,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions\/26778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}