{"id":15097,"date":"2017-11-01T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15097"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:56:23","slug":"the-math-doesnt-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15097","title":{"rendered":"The math doesn&#8217;t add up&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;another day, another repub tax cutting plan being exposed for the fraud that it is&#8230;.their grand plan was supposed to be released today but they are still working on it..and now it will be released tomorrow&#8230;never mind that they have been &#8220;working&#8221; on their tax plan since at least 2010&#8230;and they have nothing to show for it but tax cuts for the rich and raising taxes on everyone else. And magically, deficits no longer matter&#8230;all of the scores say that this &#8220;plan&#8221; (what little is known of it) would explode the deficit by 1.5 trillion dollars a year&#8230;whatever happened to the &#8220;grave concern&#8221; that the repubs were expressing about the national debt just a few months ago? Now, we on the left knew that Paul Ryan was a fraud and his &#8220;wonkishness&#8221; and expertise on budget matters was nonsense&#8230;after all, how much expertise is needed to give more and more money to the rich and corporations? It&#8217;s just like the CEO&#8217;s that are brought in to make companies profitable again and all they do is cut jobs&#8230;not grow the company or innovate&#8230;but just cut, cut, cut while they cash their 8 figure paychecks. Ryan and his tax plan are both frauds&#8230;.and we are all going to pay for it&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;another day, another repub tax cutting plan being exposed for the fraud that it is&#8230;.their grand plan was supposed to be released today but they are still working on it..and now it will be released tomorrow&#8230;never mind that they have been &#8220;working&#8221; on their tax plan since at least 2010&#8230;and they have nothing to show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15097\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The math doesn&#8217;t add up&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1490,399,1768],"class_list":["post-15097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fraud","tag-paul-ryan","tag-tax-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15098,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097\/revisions\/15098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}