{"id":1261,"date":"2010-07-28T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2010-07-28T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:12:27","slug":"funny-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/funny-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who think we can&#8217;t afford any tax cuts:<\/p>\n<p>If the stimulus package, a.k.a. &#8220;we will take your money and give it back to you&#8221;, is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-07-28\/blinder-zandi-say-u-s-bailouts-likely-averted-a-depression.html\" target=\"_blank\">what &#8220;saved the economy from recession&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;wouldn&#8217;t it have been *more* effective to have simply never taken the money from us in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Correct answer: &#8220;Sure it would, but how could I fund my pork projects that way?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who think we can&#8217;t afford any tax cuts: If the stimulus package, a.k.a. &#8220;we will take your money and give it back to you&#8221;, is part of what &#8220;saved the economy from recession&#8221;&#8230; &#8230;wouldn&#8217;t it have been *more* effective to have simply never taken the money from us in the first place? Correct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}