{"id":29832,"date":"2017-10-11T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29832"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:58:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T19:58:43","slug":"trickle-down-from-the-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/trickle-down-from-the-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"Trickle Down from the Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As tempted as I am to focus on the ongoing Republican scandal that afflicts our nation on a daily basis, I think I&#8217;ll take time out to address an issue that should be of interest to all Americans, regardless of whether they are interested in politics or not.&#160; The Reich is right about taxes.&#160; I&#8217;m not referring to the Republican Reich.&#160; The Reich on the right, is virtually always wrong.&#160; I&#8217;m referring to the Reich on the left, who is virtually always right, Robert Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1011Trickledown\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1011Trickledown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1011Trickledown.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"719\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY THE REPUBLICAN TAX PLAN IS MORE FAILED TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS<\/strong>*<\/p>\n<p>Trump and conservatives in Congress are planning a big tax cut for millionaires and billionaires. To justify it they\u2019re using the oldest song in their playbook, claiming tax cuts on the rich will trickle down to working families in the form of stronger economic growth. <\/p>\n<p>Baloney. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke. Just look at the evidence:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/166269591505\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich<\/a>&gt;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cABuFmA3nhY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans do plan to raise taxes and expenses for the poor and middle classes.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Resist Tax Cuts for the Rich!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tempted as I am to focus on the ongoing Republican scandal that afflicts our nation on a daily basis, I think I&#8217;ll take time out to address an issue that should be of interest to all Americans, regardless of whether they are interested in politics or not.&#160; The Reich is right about taxes.&#160; I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/trickle-down-from-the-reich\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}