{"id":3537,"date":"2010-02-01T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:49:28","slug":"the-president%e2%80%99s-3-8-trillion-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3537\/the-president%e2%80%99s-3-8-trillion-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s $3.8 Trillion Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the White House officially released its Budget for Fiscal Year 2011.\u00a0  It is $3.8 trillion and consumes four large volumes.\u00a0  What does it say about fiscal responsibility when your budget is thousands of pages and <a href=\"http:\/\/bookstore.gpo.gov\/collections\/budget.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">costs $236<\/span><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>After a $1.4 trillion deficit in 2009, the White House projects a larger $1.56 trillion gap in this fiscal year.\u00a0  To \u201ctrim\u201d the massive sinkhole of red ink, the Administration proposes raising income taxes (though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/remarks-president-state-union-address\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">President Obama bragged<\/span><\/a> about his tax record during his State of the Union Address) and energy taxes to reach a \u201cmanageable\u201d $1.27 trillion shortfall next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/budget\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click here<\/span><\/a> for the Office of Management and Budget website to review the budget, historical tables and analytical perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the White House officially released its Budget for Fiscal Year 2011.\u00a0 It is $3.8 trillion and consumes four large volumes.\u00a0 What does it say about fiscal responsibility when your budget is thousands of pages and costs $236? After a $1.4 trillion deficit in 2009, the White House projects a larger $1.56 trillion gap in [&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":[70,14,105,71,44],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-president-obama","tag-tax","tag-taxes","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","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=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}