{"id":11499,"date":"2009-02-28T21:32:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_on_obamas_budget_taxing_for_fairness_or_class_warfare\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T21:32:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:32:45","slug":"la_times_on_obamas_budget_taxing_for_fairness_or_class_warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11499","title":{"rendered":"LA Times on Obama&#39;s budget: Taxing for fairness or class warfare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From front to back and on nearly every page, President Obama&#8217;s new budget plan delivers a stark message: It&#8217;s time for the rich to lighten the load on the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>In education, healthcare and an array of other proposals, the budget focuses more benefits on middle-class and lower-income Americans and looks to the affluent to help pay for them.<\/p>\n<p>The change is meant to reverse a long-running trend in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-obama-budget28-2009feb28,0,2381264,print.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From front to back and on nearly every page, President Obama&#8217;s new budget plan delivers a stark message: It&#8217;s time for the rich to lighten the load on the middle class. In education, healthcare and an array of other proposals,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11499\">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":[40,149,616,151,667,596,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","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=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}