{"id":8029,"date":"2010-12-14T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T04:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8029"},"modified":"2010-12-16T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T17:55:45","slug":"trimming-the-fat-in-the-federal-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8029\/trimming-the-fat-in-the-federal-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Trimming the Fat in the Federal Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at Reason TV never miss a chance to make complex public policy simultaneously comprehensible and funny (how else to explain their decision to augment Nick Gillespie&#8217;s Ian Malcolm look with a chef&#8217;s hat?). Take a look at their new video on how to balance the federal budget and then visit the link where they explain <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/12\/05\/how-to-balance-the-budget-with\">their plan<\/a> in detail. As a comprehensive look at how Congress could get the deficit mess under control without raising taxes, it&#8217;s a logical compliment to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemorevote.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CFIF&#8217;s One More Vote campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XSep_Pof4wc&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XSep_Pof4wc&amp;feature\">\u00a0<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at Reason TV never miss a chance to make complex public policy simultaneously comprehensible and funny (how else to explain their decision to augment Nick Gillespie&#8217;s Ian Malcolm look with a chef&#8217;s hat?). Take a look at their new video on how to balance the federal budget and then visit the link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1898,81,1416,562,1802,225,71],"class_list":["post-8029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-balanced-budget","tag-debt","tag-deficits","tag-economics","tag-one-more-vote","tag-reason","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8032,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions\/8032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}