{"id":197230,"date":"2008-02-21T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/21\/the-sick-old-man-sells-his-soul-to-the-devil\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T05:41:00","slug":"the-sick-old-man-sells-his-soul-to-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/21\/the-sick-old-man-sells-his-soul-to-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sick Old Man Sells His Soul to the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First he promises, &#8220;no new taxes&#8221;, and then proposes <a href=\"http:\/\/taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org\/blog\/_archives\/2008\/2\/19\/3533610.html\">taxing employer supplied health insurance<\/a>, which amounts to taxes on about a trillion dollars a year, and then he <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/mccain_bush_should_veto_antito.php\">says that Bush should veto the anti-torture bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raising taxes on the middle class, and going pro torture to suck up to his constituency&#8230;.some &#8220;straight talker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, is it me, or is he looking increasingly physically feeble on the stump?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First he promises, &#8220;no new taxes&#8221;, and then proposes taxing employer supplied health insurance, which amounts to taxes on about a trillion dollars a year, and then he says that Bush should veto the anti-torture bill. Raising taxes on the middle class, and going pro torture to suck up to his constituency&#8230;.some &#8220;straight talker&#8221;. BTW, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197230"}],"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=197230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}