{"id":93,"date":"2012-01-12T23:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T06:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=93"},"modified":"2012-01-12T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T06:57:11","slug":"tipping-their-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Tipping Their Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/jon-perr\/gop-war-on-irs-costs-us-billions\" title=\"GOP War on IRS Costs US Billions\">this<\/a> at Crooks &#038; Liars:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In April, Congressional Republicans extracted $600 million in cuts from the IRS in return for a spending deal with President Obama, reductions which at the time were forecast to cost the Treasury $4 billion in lost revenue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From whom would the money collected through improved enforcement come? Not wage slaves. Republicans (and, to a lesser extent, Democrats) know on which side their bread is buttered. This is just an overt case of &#8220;trickle down&#8221; theory working exactly as planned. That is to say, it is working as planned, but not as <i>marketed<\/i>. The people who sell these bills of goods are not now and never have been under the delusion that what they are saying is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this at Crooks &#038; Liars: In April, Congressional Republicans extracted $600 million in cuts from the IRS in return for a spending deal with President Obama, reductions which at the time were forecast to cost the Treasury $4 billion in lost revenue. From whom would the money collected through improved enforcement come? Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}