{"id":2406,"date":"2011-05-08T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2011-05-08T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:09:32","slug":"we-will-if-they-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/we-will-if-they-will\/","title":{"rendered":"We Will if They Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas SUN columnist Jon Ralston put out this tweet on Friday: <em>\u201cHey, NV media tweeps, let&#8217;s agree, as @schwartznews 1st pointed out, D tax increase is $1.2B. $300M is additional revenue from projections.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fair enough.  Tell you what: I\u2019ll stop saying the Democrat tax hike is $1.5 billion when the other side stops claiming the over-spending deficit is $2.5 billion when the actual over-spending deficit in the general fund is now around $200 million thanks to the additional revenue from projections. <\/p>\n<p>Deal?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I didn\u2019t think so.  Back to opposing the Democrats\u2019 $1.5 billion tax hike.<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me: In an otherwise meaningless op\/ed in today\u2019s Las Vegas Sun trying to sell his $1.5 billion tax hike, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford declared that \u201cthe current modified business tax hurts small business and hampers job creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, um, duh. Those of us on the right have been saying that for, like, six years now.<\/p>\n<p>So, Sen. Horsford, if Nevada leads the nation in unemployment \u2013 and it does \u2013 then why not repeal the modified business tax right now?  Immediately.  This week.  I\u2019m pretty certain you can get plenty of Republicans to go along with you in the spirit of bipartisanship you so desperately crave.  So what are you waiting for?  Repeal it, stimulate job creation and let\u2019s move on.  <\/p>\n<p>So let it be written; so let it be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas SUN columnist Jon Ralston put out this tweet on Friday: \u201cHey, NV media tweeps, let&#8217;s agree, as @schwartznews 1st pointed out, D tax increase is $1.2B. $300M is additional revenue from projections.\u201d Fair enough. Tell you what: I\u2019ll stop saying the Democrat tax hike is $1.5 billion when the other side stops claiming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}