{"id":195,"date":"2001-08-23T06:45:20","date_gmt":"2001-08-23T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=195"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:48:51","slug":"dub-yuhs-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/08\/23\/dub-yuhs-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dub-yuh&#8217;s at it again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay, let&#8217;s see if I&#8217;ve got this straight.<\/p>\n<p>Dub-yuh and his financial people take a look at the budget a few months ago and see that we&#8217;ve got an apparent surplus &#8212; $281 billion or so, $122 billion once we set aside a chunk for Social Security. He then introduces his famous tax cut\/rebate program, which not only reduces the amount of money that the government will gain through collecting taxes, but sends a huge chunk of the surplus out to the American public (and I&#8217;m still convinced that this $300\/person &#8216;rebate&#8217; check was nothing more than a bribe to get his tax-cut package through as easily as possible &#8212; kind of a &#8216;spoonful of sugar&#8217; technique, only with poison instead of medicine going down in the end).<\/p>\n<p>Then, when the economy (as it is wont to do) does something other than as predicted in the most optimistic forecasts, the government suddenly realizes that it&#8217;s got a whopping <em>$600 million<\/em> surplus &#8212; instead of $122 billion &#8212; and is surprised?!?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. At least I&#8217;m not the only one with tight finances these days. But at least I didn&#8217;t blow $121.4 billion dollars to get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, well. At least I&#8217;m not the only one with tight finances these days. But at least I didn&#8217;t blow $121.4 billion dollars to get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}