{"id":10371,"date":"2011-07-07T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10371"},"modified":"2011-07-07T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:49:48","slug":"adding-to-the-list-of-reasons-why-republicans-shouldnt-cave-on-tax-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10371\/adding-to-the-list-of-reasons-why-republicans-shouldnt-cave-on-tax-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding to the List of Reasons for Why Republicans Shouldn&#8217;t Cave on Tax Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.J. Ciaramella of <em>The Daily Caller<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/07\/07\/sec-cedes-leasing-power-after-putting-taxpayers-on-line-for-550-million-snafu-lease\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Securities and Exchange Commission gave up its leasing authority yesterday and could face a Justice Department probe in light of a $550 million leasing scandal.<\/p>\n<p>At a House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee meeting yesterday, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro ceded the agency\u2019s leasing authority and admitted it had made a \u201cterrible mistake\u201d when it put taxpayers on the hook for a half-billion dollar lease for office space it didn\u2019t need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this is the same government that now wants to\u00a0increase taxes as part of a &#8220;deal&#8221; to\u00a0raise the debt ceiling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.J. Ciaramella of The Daily Caller reports:\u00a0 The Securities and Exchange Commission gave up its leasing authority yesterday and could face a Justice Department probe in light of a $550 million leasing scandal. At a House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee meeting yesterday, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro ceded the agency\u2019s leasing authority and admitted it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1416,316,455,1164,71],"class_list":["post-10371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deficits","tag-justice-department","tag-national-debt","tag-securities-and-exchange-commission","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10378,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions\/10378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}