{"id":3435,"date":"2010-01-27T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:37:42","slug":"why-steny-hoyer-wants-you-to-make-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3435\/why-steny-hoyer-wants-you-to-make-more-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Steny Hoyer Wants You to Make More Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his weekly press briefing yesterday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) had \u201csome good news\u201d to report.<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer noted that federal revenues (taxpayer dollars the federal government takes out of your paycheck) have stopped declining, which is a sign that the American people are \u201cmaking money.\u201d\u00a0 Taken at face value, that is good news.<\/p>\n<p>But the part about Americans making more money \u2013 in and of itself \u2013 is not what the Majority Leader was excited about.\u00a0 Rather, Hoyer\u2019s exuberance was focused on the prospect of Americans paying more taxes as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, as reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/60444\" target=\"_blank\">CNSNews.com<\/a>, the Majority Leader stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We also had some good news for the first time in approximately two years. The projection of revenues has stabilized, not decreased. That is a very good sign because it is a sign that people are in fact making money and will be in a position, because they\u2019re making money, to pay a portion of that in revenues to the federal government.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a way, this small glimpse into Hoyer\u2019s mindset explains a lot.\u00a0 And the current Administration and Congress wonder why the people are screaming mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his weekly press briefing yesterday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) had \u201csome good news\u201d to report. Hoyer noted that federal revenues (taxpayer dollars the federal government takes out of your paycheck) have stopped declining, which is a sign that the American people are \u201cmaking money.\u201d\u00a0 Taken at face value, that is good news. [&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":[783,71],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-steny-hoyer","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","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=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}