{"id":190664,"date":"2009-11-04T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/04\/something-that-i-missed-in-the-election\/"},"modified":"2009-11-04T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T02:09:00","slug":"something-that-i-missed-in-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/04\/something-that-i-missed-in-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Something that I Missed in the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In both Maine and Washington State, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/11\/another-key-tuesday-result-voters-rejected-anti-tax-anti-spending-measures.php\">voters rejected a so called &#8220;Taxpayer Bill of Rights&#8221;<\/a> (TABOR) which place limits on future spending and taxes.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that a lot of that is because people knew that this would cause cuts immediately, as opposed to the situation in good times, when there is a surplus that makes everything look good while you eat your seed corn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In both Maine and Washington State, voters rejected a so called &#8220;Taxpayer Bill of Rights&#8221; (TABOR) which place limits on future spending and taxes. My guess is that a lot of that is because people knew that this would cause cuts immediately, as opposed to the situation in good times, when there is a surplus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1000,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-elections","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190664"}],"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=190664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}