{"id":4814,"date":"2010-04-15T19:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T23:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2010-04-15T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T00:18:20","slug":"the-contract-from-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4814\/the-contract-from-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contract From America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Tax Day, several friends in the Tea Party movement offer this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecontract.org\/the-contract-from-america\/ \" target=\"_blank\">ten point plan<\/a> for the next U.S. Congress to enact.\u00a0 A sampling:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Protect the Constitution<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reject Cap &amp; Trade<\/p>\n<p>(3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Demand a Balanced Budget<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enact Fundamental Tax Reform<\/p>\n<p>(5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Restore Fiscal Responsibility &amp; Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington<\/p>\n<p>(6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 End Runaway Government Spending<\/p>\n<p>(7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Defund, Repeal, &amp; Replace Government-Run Health Care<\/p>\n<p>(8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pass an \u201cAll-of-the-Above\u201d Energy Policy<\/p>\n<p>(9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stop the Pork<\/p>\n<p>(10)\u00a0 Stop the Tax Hikes<\/p>\n<p>Each point comes with a nice one-sentence elaboration.\u00a0 It is definitely worth the read.\u00a0 Candidates, are you listening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Tax Day, several friends in the Tea Party movement offer this ten point plan for the next U.S. Congress to enact.\u00a0 A sampling: (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Protect the Constitution (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reject Cap &amp; Trade (3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Demand a Balanced Budget (4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enact Fundamental Tax Reform (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Restore Fiscal Responsibility &amp; Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington [&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":[700,84,1121,28],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-elections","tag-congress","tag-contract-from-america","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","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=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}