{"id":2526,"date":"2009-12-07T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2009-12-07T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:03:02","slug":"5-million-for-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2526\/5-million-for-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"$5 Million for Sharks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2527\" title=\"Tibur\u00f3n\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Tibur\u00f3n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tibur\u00f3n\" width=\"267\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a time of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/17\/us\/17deficit.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">record deficits<\/span><\/a>, most taxpayers would assume that sharks wouldn\u2019t be on the radar of most U.S. Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Well, meet Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who has introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/thomas\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">S. 580<\/span><\/a>, The Shark Conservation Act of 2009.\u00a0  Not that we don\u2019t all love <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/convergence\/sharkweek\/sharkweek.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shark Week<\/a><\/span>, but the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/108xx\/doc10840\/s850.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just estimated<\/span><\/a> that the cost of S. 580 is a cool $5 million over the next five years alone.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair to Senator Kerry, the bill does have several <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d111:1:.\/temp\/~bd1TFI:@@@P|\/bss\/111search.html|\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">GOP cosponsors<\/span><\/a>, but apparently they are all happy to continue Washington\u2019s merry spending frenzy at a time when the nation is still mired in record deficits and high unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a time of record deficits, most taxpayers would assume that sharks wouldn\u2019t be on the radar of most U.S. Senators. Well, meet Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who has introduced S. 580, The Shark Conservation Act of 2009.\u00a0 Not that we don\u2019t all love Shark Week, but the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just estimated [&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":[440,40,599,600],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cbo","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-john-kerry","tag-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","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=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}