{"id":77,"date":"2007-01-22T05:37:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/01\/22\/read-his-lips-tax-the-middle-class\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T05:52:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T09:52:24","slug":"read-his-lips-tax-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/01\/22\/read-his-lips-tax-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Read His Lips: Tax The Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparent reversal of his anti-tax-increase position, Bush is expected to use this week&#8217;s State of the Union address to announce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/20\/AR2007012000468.html\">tax increases for some workers whose employer-provided health plans cost significantly more than the national average<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Read His Lips: Tax The Middle Class<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>George Bush has at last found a tax<br \/>\nThat he&#8217;s fond of and backs to the max:<br \/>\nIf your boss pays big bucks<br \/>\nFor your health plan, the crux<br \/>\nOf Dub&#8217;s scheme is your taxes will wax. [tags]Bush Tax Increase, Health Insurance, Middle Class Tax Increase, Health Plans[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparent reversal of his anti-tax-increase position, Bush is expected to use this week&#8217;s State of the Union address to announce tax increases for some workers whose employer-provided health plans cost significantly more than the national average: Read His Lips: Tax The Middle Class By Madeleine Begun Kane George Bush has at last found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,52,11,6,7,3,9,45,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}