{"id":179667,"date":"2017-12-03T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/03\/passed-in-the-dark-of-night\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T02:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T07:02:00","slug":"passed-in-the-dark-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/03\/passed-in-the-dark-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Passed in the Dark of Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a 51-49 vote, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/02\/us\/politics\/republicans-tax-cuts.html\">Senate has passed its version of tax cuts<\/a> a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that, to the best of my knowledge, this was a vote on a bill that Senate Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2017\/12\/02\/democrats-fume-over-absurd-gop-tax-bill-full-of-last-minute-handwritten-edits\/\">literally could not read the bill because it was full of handwritten scrawls in the margins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this is f%$#ed up beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>For their next act, they will try to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, though since the Senate bill contains the chained CPI, there is already a cut proposed.<\/p>\n<p>This is f%$#ed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a 51-49 vote, the Senate has passed its version of tax cuts a few minutes ago. I would note that, to the best of my knowledge, this was a vote on a bill that Senate Democrats literally could not read the bill because it was full of handwritten scrawls in the margins. Needless to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[446,447,364,449,374,480],"class_list":["post-179667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-evil","tag-legislation","tag-politics","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}