{"id":582,"date":"2009-09-16T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-09-16T11:24:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:24:55","slug":"the-tax-that-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/582\/the-tax-that-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tax That Isn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Tax that Isn\u2019t a Tax Because President Obama Isn\u2019t a Liar, and Even if He Were, He Wouldn\u2019t Lie About Something Like Taxes on the Middle Class, Except to Stop Global Warming, Which May or May Not Be Real, Depending On Who Is Lying About that<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Declan McCullagh reports at cbsnews.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says that the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year.\u00a0 At the upper end of the administration\u2019s estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The documents were obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request from the <a href=\"http:\/\/cei.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Competitive Enterprise Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tax that Isn\u2019t a Tax Because President Obama Isn\u2019t a Liar, and Even if He Were, He Wouldn\u2019t Lie About Something Like Taxes on the Middle Class, Except to Stop Global Warming, Which May or May Not Be Real, Depending On Who Is Lying About that Declan McCullagh reports at cbsnews.com: The Obama administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,105,71],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-obama","tag-tax","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}