{"id":2433,"date":"2009-12-03T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2009-12-03T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T20:14:47","slug":"house-votes-to-increase-death-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2433\/house-votes-to-increase-death-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"House Votes to Increase Death Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having never met a tax increase they didn\u2019t like, Democrats voted to increase the Death Tax today.<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, the Death Tax was set expire in 2010.\u00a0  Now, starting in January, the tax could increase from 0% to 45%.\u00a0 Not one Republican voted to increase the Death Tax, proving that the GOP still has some semblance of a fiscal spine.<\/p>\n<p>All hope is not lost, however, as the Senate still has to take up the measure and pass the House version of the tax increase.\u00a0 It must then go to President Obama\u2019s desk for signing.<\/p>\n<p>The final vote was <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2009\/roll929.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">225 to 200<\/span><\/a> (218 needed for passage).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having never met a tax increase they didn\u2019t like, Democrats voted to increase the Death Tax today. Under current law, the Death Tax was set expire in 2010.\u00a0 Now, starting in January, the tax could increase from 0% to 45%.\u00a0 Not one Republican voted to increase the Death Tax, proving that the GOP still has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,575,105],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-death-tax","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}