{"id":11456,"date":"2009-02-25T22:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_leonhardt_like_having_medicare_then_taxes_must_rise\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T22:43:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:43:38","slug":"david_leonhardt_like_having_medicare_then_taxes_must_rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11456","title":{"rendered":"David Leonhardt: Like Having Medicare? Then Taxes Must Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toward the end of Monday\u2019s meetings on fiscal responsibility at the White House, Senator Kent Conrad stood up and produced a little bolt of honesty. \u201cRevenue is the thing almost nobody wants to talk about,\u201d\u009d said Mr. Conrad, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. \u201cBut I think if we\u2019re going to be honest with each other, we\u2019ve got to recognize that is part of a solution as well.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Conrad\u2019s frankness was delivered in the cryptic language of budget experts, and many people might have missed the point. So allow me to translate:<\/p>\n<p>Your taxes are going up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/25\/business\/economy\/25leonhardt.html?_r=1&#038;ref=business\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward the end of Monday\u2019s meetings on fiscal responsibility at the White House, Senator Kent Conrad stood up and produced a little bolt of honesty. \u201cRevenue is the thing almost nobody wants to talk about,\u201d\u009d said Mr. Conrad, the chairman<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11456\">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":[39,40,149,104,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","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=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}