{"id":2580,"date":"2010-07-07T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2010-07-07T07:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T15:28:32","slug":"you-cant-make-promises-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/you-cant-make-promises-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You can&#8217;t make promises to people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/tech-ticker\/deficit-hysteria-means-the-middle-class-is-about-to-get-squeezed-by-new-taxes-517056.html?tickers=udn,gld,uup,tlt,tbt,^gspc,^dji&amp;sec=topStories&amp;pos=9&amp;asset=&amp;ccode=\">today&#8217;s news<\/a>, regarding how far down the income scale that tax increases are going to hit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who chairs the Senate Democratic Policy  Committee, said he didn&#8217;t think there was &#8220;any magic&#8221; in $250,000. Sen.  Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., noted &#8220;you could go lower &#8230; why not  $200,000? With the debt and deficit we have, you can&#8217;t make promises to  people.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Se. Feinstein, who voted for Medicare expansion and ObamaCare, did not intend irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s news, regarding how far down the income scale that tax increases are going to hit: Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who chairs the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, said he didn&#8217;t think there was &#8220;any magic&#8221; in $250,000. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., noted &#8220;you could go lower &#8230; why not $200,000? With the debt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}