{"id":9242,"date":"2011-04-11T12:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2011-04-11T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:19:32","slug":"bring-on-the-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9242\/bring-on-the-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring On the Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704366104576255282893680792.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> reports that President Barack Obama\u2019s upcoming speech about how to balance the budget will include tax increases along with cuts to programs like Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>The call for higher taxes on America\u2019s job creators will solidify the decision facing voters next year.\u00a0 The Democrats want more money, while the Republicans want less government.<\/p>\n<p>If there is a positive aspect about the president showing his true tax-and-spend colors, it\u2019s that ideology \u2013 how serious people frame reality and their decisions about it \u2013 is now front and center in politics.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the GOP want lower taxes and private sector growth.\u00a0 President Obama and the Democrats want to spend taxpayer money into an ever-growing share of GDP.<\/p>\n<p>Let the debate begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that President Barack Obama\u2019s upcoming speech about how to balance the budget will include tax increases along with cuts to programs like Medicare and Medicaid. The call for higher taxes on America\u2019s job creators will solidify the decision facing voters next year.\u00a0 The Democrats want more money, while the Republicans [&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":[143,70,59,2585,19,2584,454,232,235,802,61,71],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-ideology","tag-job-creation","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-spending","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242","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=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9244,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}