{"id":15570,"date":"2019-06-05T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=15570"},"modified":"2019-06-05T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:18:10","slug":"tariffs-are-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2019\/06\/05\/tariffs-are-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Taxing Tariffs (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/844951\/trumps-tariffs-might-amount-biggest-tax-hike-since-1980s\">Headline:<\/a> &#8220;Trump&#8217;s tariffs might amount to the biggest U.S. tax hike since the 1980s&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now my two-verse limerick:<\/p>\n<p>A tariff is really a tax<br \/>\nThat Trump&#8217;s hitting us with to the max,<br \/>\nJust to make his base think<br \/>\nTrump the &#8220;tough guy&#8221; won&#8217;t blink.<br \/>\nDear voters, please give him the ax.<\/p>\n<p>Donald counts on his fans not to know<br \/>\nThat tariffs are taxes, and so<br \/>\nHe keeps raising those taxes.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s hoping the ax is<br \/>\nAbout to deliver its blow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline: &#8220;Trump&#8217;s tariffs might amount to the biggest U.S. tax hike since the 1980s&#8221; And now my two-verse limerick: A tariff is really a tax That Trump&#8217;s hitting us with to the max, Just to make his base think Trump the &#8220;tough guy&#8221; won&#8217;t blink. Dear voters, please give him the ax. Donald counts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,1550,44,114,20,6,7,3,9,45,17],"tags":[2897,516,1574,3278,2205,2192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15572,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions\/15572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}