{"id":713,"date":"2009-09-25T20:38:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T01:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=713"},"modified":"2009-09-25T20:40:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T01:40:18","slug":"pelosi-house-dems-consider-insurance-tax-to-fund-health-care-cnn-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/09\/25\/pelosi-house-dems-consider-insurance-tax-to-fund-health-care-cnn-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi: House Dems consider insurance tax to fund health care &#8211; CNN.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The House Democrats&#8217; health care plan includes a surtax on wealthy Americans. The graduated tax would apply to families making more than $350,000 a year, with the rate increasing as income levels go up. But a number of freshmen Democrats argued that the initial income level should be raised so the tax doesn&#8217;t unfairly burden small businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since when did &#8220;families making more than $350,000 a year&#8221; become &#8220;small businesses&#8221; that we do not want to burden?<\/p>\n<p>Even the Blue Dogs have stopped trying to make sense.\u00a0 Compromised legislation folks.\u00a0 It is what Obama asked for.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/09\/25\/health.care.insurance.tax\/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn\">Pelosi: House Dems consider insurance tax to fund health care &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The House Democrats&#8217; health care plan includes a surtax on wealthy Americans. The graduated tax would apply to families making more than $350,000 a year, with the rate increasing as income levels go up. But a number of freshmen Democrats argued that the initial income level should be raised so the tax doesn&#8217;t unfairly burden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/09\/25\/pelosi-house-dems-consider-insurance-tax-to-fund-health-care-cnn-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pelosi: House Dems consider insurance tax to fund health care &#8211; CNN.com<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}