{"id":269,"date":"2006-10-31T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2006-10-31T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T14:40:11","slug":"cut-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Cut a few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/\">Thinkprogress<\/a>, Bush has diagnosed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/10\/20061030-4.html\">problem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>In other words, we just didn&#8217;t talk about philosophy &#8212; <strong>there&#8217;s too many philosophers in Washington<\/strong> &#8212; we acted. We got the job done. We cut the taxes on everybody who pays income taxes. We doubled the child tax credit. We reduced the marriage penalty. We cut taxes on small businesses. We cut taxes on capital gains and dividends to promote investment and jobs. And to reward family businesses and farmers for a lifetime of hard work and savings, we put the death tax on the road to extinction. (Applause.)<\/p>\n<p>If he thinks it&#8217;s bad now, he should just wait for the December meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apaonline.org\/apa\/\">American Philosophical Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Thinkprogress, Bush has diagnosed the problem: >In other words, we just didn&#8217;t talk about philosophy &#8212; there&#8217;s too many philosophers in Washington &#8212; we acted. We got the job done. We cut the taxes on everybody who pays income taxes. We doubled the child tax credit. We reduced the marriage penalty. We cut &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cut a few<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}