{"id":190384,"date":"2009-12-04T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/04\/pelosi-comes-out-in-favor-of-tobin-tax\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T19:46:00","slug":"pelosi-comes-out-in-favor-of-tobin-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/04\/pelosi-comes-out-in-favor-of-tobin-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Comes Out in Favor of Tobin Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, this will give Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/34258794\">the vapors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A proposed tax on financial transactions &#8220;has a great deal of merit&#8221; and would help Congress raise needed revenue, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that the transaction tax still has a great deal of merit,&#8221; Pelosi said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The tax would have a &#8220;really minimal impact on the transaction, but a tremendous impact on helping us meet our needs,&#8221; Pelosi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Timmeh&#8230;.Suck&#8230;.on&#8230;This&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I expect Obama to oppose this fiercely in private, though I am not sure what he will do in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, this will give Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner the vapors: A proposed tax on financial transactions &#8220;has a great deal of merit&#8221; and would help Congress raise needed revenue, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. &#8220;I believe that the transaction tax still has a great deal of merit,&#8221; Pelosi said at a news conference. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1038,998,1004,1020,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-budget","category-congress","category-finance","category-legislation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190384"}],"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=190384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}