{"id":192878,"date":"2009-02-11T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/11\/just-shoot-me\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T05:04:00","slug":"just-shoot-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/11\/just-shoot-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Shoot Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like executive pay caps in the stimulus will be dropped because <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/02\/sherman-dems-could-remove-executive-pay-caps-from-final-version-of-stimulus.php\">the so-called fiscal hawks think that they will cost too much<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Unfortunately, [Representative Brad] Sherman told me that he believes the executive compensation limits added to the Senate&#8217;s stimulus are going to get removed during conference talks with the House. The reason: a new Congressional Budget Office estimate that the pay caps will cost the government $10.8 billion in lost tax revenue over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plan is to take out the executive compensation provisions &#8230; and blame the Republicans for setting out the level [of $800 billion]&#8221; for the final version of the stimulus, Sherman said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gaah!!!!!!!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like executive pay caps in the stimulus will be dropped because the so-called fiscal hawks think that they will cost too much: Unfortunately, [Representative Brad] Sherman told me that he believes the executive compensation limits added to the Senate&#8217;s stimulus are going to get removed during conference talks with the House. The reason: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192878"}],"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=192878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}