{"id":3620,"date":"2010-12-14T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2010-12-14T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T00:06:58","slug":"teabuggery-and-tax-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/teabuggery-and-tax-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Teabuggery and Tax Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bet you think that this is another article about the Tax Capitulation Act, right?  Wrong!  Republican greed on behalf of the uber-rich goes well beyond the cloistered corridors of Washington, DC.  For example, by following Republican doctrine to the letter, an elected official has managed to completely teabugger a Long Island county.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"14Mangano\"Apparently, lowering taxes <\/font><\/font>doesn’t fix<\/font><\/a><\/font> every single problem, including cancer.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Facing a huge budget deficit when he took office in January, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano did not impose a hiring freeze. He did not stop borrowing to subsidize some of the richest school districts in the country<\/strong>. He did not eliminate the Police Department\u2019s beloved mounted unit.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Instead, Mr. Mangano, a Republican who won one of the first upsets of the Tea Party era<\/strong>, did what he had promised: He cut taxes, adding $40 million to the county\u2019s deficit, which has since reached nearly $350 million<\/strong>.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Now, with its bonds suddenly downgraded and a state oversight agency preparing to seize its checkbook and credit cards, Nassau is on the verge of a full-fledged fiscal crisis<\/font><\/strong>. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

I bet Mr. Mangano screeched a ton about the deficit, even as he plotted his tax-cut fix all. Not to worry, though — he can fix everything by breaking the unions!… [emphasis added<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here we have a perfect example of the effects of Republican financial doctrine: cut taxes for the rich and continue welfare for the rich.  Now that I think of it, maybe this article should have been about the Tax Capitulation Act!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bet you think that this is another article about the Tax Capitulation Act, right?  Wrong!  Republican greed on behalf of the uber-rich goes well beyond the cloistered corridors of Washington, DC.  For example, by following Republican doctrine to the letter, an elected official has managed to completely teabugger a Long Island county. Apparently, lowering […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","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\/3620","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=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}