{"id":16620,"date":"2009-12-11T04:27:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/agricultural_groups_call_proposed_financial_tax_counterproductive\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T04:27:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:27:29","slug":"agricultural_groups_call_proposed_financial_tax_counterproductive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16620","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural groups call proposed financial tax counterproductive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers and ranchers use futures contracts as a hedge against price fluctuations, as do elevators that buy and sell grain.<\/p>\n<p>Bethany Shively, spokeswoman for the National Cattlemen&#8217;s Beef Association, said such a tax would impact a producer&#8217;s effort to stay in business by buying and selling futures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any additional taxes or fees on these instruments would be a tax on ag producers, and that is unacceptable,&#8221; Shively said. &#8220;This type of proposal would put jobs at risk, not help offset their creation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalpress.com\/california\/ws-Stock-Tax-121109\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers and ranchers use futures contracts as a hedge against price fluctuations, as do elevators that buy and sell grain. Bethany Shively, spokeswoman for the National Cattlemen&#8217;s Beef Association, said such a tax would impact a producer&#8217;s effort to stay<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16620\">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":[40,582,589,149,597,599,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-stock-market","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620","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=16620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}