{"id":6029,"date":"2010-07-09T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2010-07-09T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T05:43:11","slug":"obama-inspires-taxpayers-to-send-voluntary-payments-to-arizona-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6029\/obama-inspires-taxpayers-to-send-voluntary-payments-to-arizona-state-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Inspires Taxpayers to Send Voluntary Payments to Arizona State Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, he CAN!\u00a0 President Barack Obama managed to pull off a rare feat this week: convincing conservative Americans to voluntarily contribute more money than they owe to the government to help it fund a program.\u00a0 The problem for the president is that thousands of Americans from all 50 states were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-12767-US-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m7d8-Arizona-gets-500000-to-defend-immigration-law-against-federal-government-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\">sending the checks to Arizona<\/a> to fight the Obama Justice Department\u2019s legal challenge to SB 1070, the state\u2019s new illegal immigration law.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the donations were between $10 and $100; precisely the types of contributions that propelled Obama to victory while giving his campaign team reason to brag that his support was wide and potentially very deep.\u00a0 Faced with a similar kind of widespread movement arrayed against him, will Obama see the nationwide backlash he\u2019s loping towards before it\u2019s too late?\u00a0 <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do conservatives want him to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, he CAN!\u00a0 President Barack Obama managed to pull off a rare feat this week: convincing conservative Americans to voluntarily contribute more money than they owe to the government to help it fund a program.\u00a0 The problem for the president is that thousands of Americans from all 50 states were sending the checks to Arizona [&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":[846,143,1453,1526,514,1452,1240],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arizona","tag-barack-obama","tag-department-of-justice","tag-donation","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-sb-1070","tag-taxpayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}