{"id":188928,"date":"2010-07-07T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/07\/timothy-geithner-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:28:00","slug":"timothy-geithner-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/07\/timothy-geithner-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Geithner Can Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img198.imageshack.us\/img198\/5166\/shinymetalass.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>So, with all the talk of screwing the ordinary guy on the social safety net through Barack Obama&#8217;s Pete Peterson sponsored catfood commission, Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner still has the time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE66668I20100707\">promise people who never worked a day for their money that they will pay less in taxes than the guy at McDonalds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Obama administration will keep tax rates at levels that benefit job-creating businesses and limit taxes on capital gains and dividends, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Kudlow Report&#8221;, Geithner said the intent is to extend and keep in place tax cuts that should benefit 95 percent of businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to make sure that we keep at 20 percent the existing rates on dividends and capital gains,&#8221; Geithner said. &#8220;We think that&#8217;s good policy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Call me a commie, but I think that people who work for their money should pay <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">less<\/span>, not <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">more<\/span> in taxes than the trust fund babies who haven&#8217;t lifted a finger for their lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, with all the talk of screwing the ordinary guy on the social safety net through Barack Obama&#8217;s Pete Peterson sponsored catfood commission, Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner still has the time to promise people who never worked a day for their money that they will pay less in taxes than the guy at McDonalds: Obama &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,983,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-taxes","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188928"}],"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=188928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}