{"id":5081,"date":"2010-05-05T09:46:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T13:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2010-05-05T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T14:07:20","slug":"ramirez-cartoon-the-vat-pickpocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5081\/ramirez-cartoon-the-vat-pickpocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramirez Cartoon:  The VAT Pickpocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Obama Administration and congressional leadership scrambling to\u00a0find new\u00a0revenue to pay for their big government agenda, there is increasing speculation about the imposition of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/566-taxes-and-economy-center\" target=\"_blank\">Value Added Tax (VAT)<\/a>.\u00a0 In his latest\u00a0cartoon, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez illustrates what a VAT would mean for the average American.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?c=733\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"VAT Pick Pocket\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/images\/cartoons\/2010-05\/VATPickPocket-big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"463\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View more of Michael Ramirez\u2019s cartoons on CFIF\u2019s website <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?c=733\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Obama Administration and congressional leadership scrambling to\u00a0find new\u00a0revenue to pay for their big government agenda, there is increasing speculation about the imposition of a new Value Added Tax (VAT).\u00a0 In his latest\u00a0cartoon, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez illustrates what a VAT would mean for the average American. View more of Michael Ramirez\u2019s cartoons on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,189,1226,1227,245],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cartoon","tag-michael-ramirez","tag-pick-pocket","tag-value-added-tax","tag-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5085,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}