{"id":32737,"date":"2025-07-30T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32737"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:23:35","slug":"explain-this-to-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32737","title":{"rendered":"Explain this to me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with repubs continuing to lie that the tariffs are not going to effect prices at all, can someone explain to me why they are now touting a &#8220;rebate&#8221; of up to 600 dollars a person to help people pay the higher costs? With tariffs already estimated to cost a family of 4 over 4,000 dollars a year, it seems to me that this is just a bribe to take people&#8217;s minds off tariffs and give the repubs a talking point to be able to say &#8220;see, we gave you all that cash&#8221; and use it in the 26 election&#8230;but that family of 4 is still out almost 2 grand even after the checks&#8230;this is the repubs just making things up as they go since they are really willfully ignorant of basic economics&#8230;and they are counting on the dems continuing to be lousy in their messaging so the right wing mainstream media can drown out the truth&#8230;as always&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with repubs continuing to lie that the tariffs are not going to effect prices at all, can someone explain to me why they are now touting a &#8220;rebate&#8221; of up to 600 dollars a person to help people pay the higher costs? With tariffs already estimated to cost a family of 4 over 4,000 dollars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explain this to me&#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":[4324,1883],"class_list":["post-32737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-rebate-checks","tag-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32737","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=32737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32738,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32737\/revisions\/32738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}