{"id":197572,"date":"2008-01-24T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/24\/deal-reached-on-tax-rebates-for-stimulus-washingtonpost-com\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:01:00","slug":"deal-reached-on-tax-rebates-for-stimulus-washingtonpost-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/24\/deal-reached-on-tax-rebates-for-stimulus-washingtonpost-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal Reached on Tax Rebates for Stimulus &#8211; washingtonpost.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/24\/AR2008012400532.html?hpid=topnews\">Deal Reached on Tax Rebates for Stimulus &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>High points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1200 Per couple for the middle class<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>$300 credit for children.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Limits of $75K\/150K for single\/family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Low Points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No unemployment or food stamp spending, the <b>BEST<\/b> way to stimulate the economy.<\/li>\n<li>Only $300 for the working poor.<\/li>\n<li>Completely <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bogus<\/span> tax giveaways to businesses that will take <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">months<\/span> if not <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">years<\/span> to show effect, and generate less economic activity<\/li>\n<li>An increase from $417,000 to as much as $700,000 for &#8220;jumbo&#8221; mortgages bought by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Like we need to involve the government in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bad mortgages for rich people<\/span>.  It&#8217;s a bailout of the rich, and it&#8217;s bad policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the Democrats had any guts, they would have held out for better, but I guess that guts is just ,&#8221;not on the table&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t do the Pelosi pic again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal Reached on Tax Rebates for Stimulus &#8211; washingtonpost.com High points: 1200 Per couple for the middle class $300 credit for children. Limits of $75K\/150K for single\/family Low Points: No unemployment or food stamp spending, the BEST way to stimulate the economy. Only $300 for the working poor. Completely bogus tax giveaways to businesses that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,973,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-economy","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197572"}],"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=197572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}