{"id":8597,"date":"2012-11-23T16:39:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T20:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2012-11-23T16:39:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T20:39:01","slug":"michigan-fetus-tax-credit-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/11\/23\/michigan-fetus-tax-credit-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan&#8217;s Fetal Shenanigans (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/nov\/22\/michigan-republicans-tax-credit-unborn-foetuses\">Republican behavior<\/a> is so crazy, I almost couldn&#8217;t write a limerick about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican lawmakers in Michigan, a state which eliminated tax credits for children last year, have proposed a tax credit for unborn foetuses of 12 weeks gestation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Critics said the proposal was &#8220;absurd&#8221; and described it as a backdoor way of trying to pass &#8220;personhood&#8221; legislation which would give rights to an embryo and crack down on abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The irony-impaired Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/11\/michigan_tax_deduction_fetus.html\">Jud Gilbert<\/a>, R-Algonac said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You\u2019re recognizing the fact that people have additional expenses, another person to take care of.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michigan&#8217;s Fetal Shenanigans (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A Republican law now forbids<br \/>\nTax credits for Michigan kids,<br \/>\nBut those same pols want credits<br \/>\nFor fetuses. Bet it&#8217;s<br \/>\nA product of brains on the skids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Republican behavior is so crazy, I almost couldn&#8217;t write a limerick about it. Republican lawmakers in Michigan, a state which eliminated tax credits for children last year, have proposed a tax credit for unborn foetuses of 12 weeks gestation&#8230; Critics said the proposal was &#8220;absurd&#8221; and described it as a backdoor way of trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,1820,114,20,2195,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[2823,2190,2191,1574,2194,1601,2193,702,301,2192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597"}],"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=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}