{"id":10530,"date":"2009-01-05T07:51:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T07:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_obama_eyes_300_billion_tax_cut\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T07:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T07:51:06","slug":"wsj_obama_eyes_300_billion_tax_cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10530","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Obama Eyes $300 Billion Tax Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a plan to offer about $300 billion in tax cuts to individuals and businesses, a move aimed at attracting Republican support for an economic-stimulus package and prodding companies to create jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the proposed tax cuts &#8212; which would account for about 40% of a stimulus package that could reach $775 billion over two years &#8212; is greater than many on both sides of the aisle in Congress had anticipated, and may make it easier to win over Republicans who have stressed that any initiative should rely relatively heavily on tax cuts rather than spending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123111279694652423.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a plan to offer about $300 billion in tax cuts to individuals and businesses, a move aimed at attracting Republican support for an economic-stimulus package and prodding companies to create jobs. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10530\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,151,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}