{"id":195775,"date":"2008-06-14T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/14\/obamas-donut-hole-social-security-tax\/"},"modified":"2008-06-14T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T14:12:00","slug":"obamas-donut-hole-social-security-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/14\/obamas-donut-hole-social-security-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Donut Hole Social Security Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is proposing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/president\/19891059.html?location_refer=World\">restarting the tax for incomes above $250,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not too fond of the donut hole he is proposing, but I understand the politics here.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot more voters between (IIRC) $104K and $250K, but a lot more money above 250K.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that needs be done though is that the definition of &#8220;wages&#8221; needs to be expanded, or a lot of these folks will move &#8220;wages&#8221; to dividends and capital gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is proposing restarting the tax for incomes above $250,000. I&#8217;m not too fond of the donut hole he is proposing, but I understand the politics here. There are a lot more voters between (IIRC) $104K and $250K, but a lot more money above 250K. One thing that needs be done though is that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1086,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-social-safety-net","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195775"}],"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=195775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}