{"id":1936,"date":"2010-07-25T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T14:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2010-07-25T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T14:06:51","slug":"debunking-common-liberal-myths-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/debunking-common-liberal-myths-about-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking common liberal myths about the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704738404575347302831199046.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird\">The Wall Street Journal has a good article that interjects reality in order to debunk some common leftist myths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is massive, uncontrolled government spending, not the myth of lost tax revenue.<br \/>\nThe myths they analyze and debunk are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bush tax cuts wiped out last decade\u2019s budget surpluses.<\/li>\n<li>The next decade\u2019s deficits are the result of the previous administration\u2019s profligacy<\/li>\n<li>Declining revenues are driving future deficits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal has a good article that interjects reality in order to debunk some common leftist myths. The problem is massive, uncontrolled government spending, not the myth of lost tax revenue. The myths they analyze and debunk are: The Bush tax cuts wiped out last decade\u2019s budget surpluses. The next decade\u2019s deficits are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[294,621],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","tag-economy","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-ve","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}