{"id":823,"date":"2004-08-12T23:41:57","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T23:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=823"},"modified":"2004-08-12T23:41:57","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T23:41:57","slug":"from-the-ya-think-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/823","title":{"rendered":"From the &#8220;ya think?&#8221; department&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, check this out: according to <i>The New York Times<\/i> article &#8220;<a title=\"The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Report Finds Tax Cuts Heavily Favor the Wealthy&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/13\/politics\/campaign\/13tax.html?hp&#8221;>Report Finds Tax Cuts Heavily Favor the Wealthy<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fully one-third of President Bush&#8217;s tax cuts in the last three years have gone to people with the top 1 percent of income, who have earned an average of $1.2 million annually, according to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to be published Friday.<br \/>\nThe report calculated that households with incomes in that top 1 percent were receiving an average tax cut of $78,460 this year, while households in the middle 20 percent of earnings &#8211; averaging about $57,000 a year &#8211; were getting an average cut of only $1,090.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to note that this 1% pays a disproportionate amount of taxes, but I&#8217;ve gotta side with Warren Buffett on this one &#150; that top 1% doesn&#8217;t need the money <i>half<\/i> as bad as, say, those of us in the lower 99%.<br \/>\nHeh.  That ought to throw a little gasoline on the pyre.<br \/>\nWhile I&#8217;m being political, has anybody else noticed that Bush and Cheney&#8217;s recent behavior towards Kerry has been remarkably like schoolyard idiot bullies clapping their hands over their ears and yelling <i>&#8220;Lalalalalalalalaaaaaa&#8221;<\/i> when the smart kid starts showing them up in front of everybody?  Maybe we <i>do<\/i> learn all we need to know in kindergarten.  <i>Pffft.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, check this out: according to The New York Times article &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-dh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}