{"id":16732,"date":"2012-12-20T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2012-12-20T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T20:46:08","slug":"rothenberg-gop-may-be-right-but-raise-taxes-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16732\/rothenberg-gop-may-be-right-but-raise-taxes-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Rothenberg: GOP May Be Right, But Raise Taxes Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/the_new_year_cant_come_soon_enough_for_the_gop-220192-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Rothenberg<\/a> perfectly articulates the difficult post-election position of fiscal conservatives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans may well be correct that the nation\u2019s biggest problem is that \u201cthe government spends too much, not that it taxes too little,\u201d but at some point political realities rather than ideological beliefs or past party dogma ought to guide both party leaders and members of its rank and file.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Roll Call columnist also shows just how much Beltway logic drives his analysis.\u00a0 If Republicans are right that \u201cthe government spends too much, not that it taxes too little,\u201d then Republicans are <em>justified<\/em> in pushing for reduced spending and resisting tax increases.\u00a0 And, if Republicans <em>are<\/em> right, then President Barack Obama and his fellow liberals are <em>wrong<\/em> to demand the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not ideology, just math and common sense.\u00a0 Political calculations may end up trumping both eventually, but that doesn\u2019t mean that fiscal conservatives within the Republican Party are wrong as a matter of logic from defending their position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Rothenberg perfectly articulates the difficult post-election position of fiscal conservatives: Republicans may well be correct that the nation\u2019s biggest problem is that \u201cthe government spends too much, not that it taxes too little,\u201d but at some point political realities rather than ideological beliefs or past party dogma ought to guide both party leaders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,928,2976,3625,61,2266,71],"class_list":["post-16732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-conservative","tag-fiscal","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-spending","tag-stuart-rothenberg","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16736,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions\/16736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}