{"id":54039,"date":"2014-08-09T00:21:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=54039"},"modified":"2014-12-28T22:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T05:11:27","slug":"it-turns-out-that-when-you-cut-taxes-on-people-who-have-boatloads-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/08\/it-turns-out-that-when-you-cut-taxes-on-people-who-have-boatloads-of-money.html","title":{"rendered":"It turns out that when you cut taxes on people who have boatloads of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026and try to get blood from the turnip of people who have no money (just to make sure the poor are punished good and hard like they deserve), your state winds up with no money and can\u2019t take care of the common good like it\u2019s supposed to. \u00a0It\u2019s like all those biblical warnings are true or something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2014\/07\/16\/gop-governor-implements-gop-economics-disaster-ensues\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">In Kansas, this has resulted in a civil war between sane conservatives and insane ones, with the sane guys supporting the Dems just to try to rein in the lunatics who are wrecking the Kansan economy by blind adherence to crazy dogma over common sense.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A political movement that has been so wrong about so much so many times for so many years and harming so many people is one that people really need to rethink. \u00a0It appears that may finally be starting in Kansas.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026and try to 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