{"id":267558,"date":"2010-02-02T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=32128"},"modified":"2010-02-02T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:36:07","slug":"back-door-taxes-hikes-to-hit-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267558","title":{"rendered":"Back-Door Taxes Hikes to Hit the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jesse Benton<\/p>\n

Update: <\/strong>Reuters has pulled the story referenced below.  We’ll keep an eye out for any further updates.<\/p>\n

A central plank to Obama’s camapign was a pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. Here’s a video on how that is going<\/a>. (Thanks to my friend Adam Radman at ATR)<\/p>\n

Now, Reuters and Drudge are reporting on the back-door, sneaky way the Administration is planning to cut the deficit – not by cutting spending, or trimming back our overseas empire. No, it’s to squeeze more money out of your pocket.<\/p>\n

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In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a tax hike by stealth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jesse Benton Update: Reuters has pulled the story referenced below.  We’ll keep an eye out for any further updates. A central plank to Obama’s camapign was a pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. Here’s a video on how that is going. (Thanks to my friend Adam Radman at ATR) Now, Reuters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}