{"id":2842,"date":"2011-09-20T07:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2011-09-20T07:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:18:29","slug":"the-old-school-democrat-method-to-reduce-the-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/the-old-school-democrat-method-to-reduce-the-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"The old school democrat method to reduce the deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us set the Way Back Machine to 1962, when a democrat President presented his plan to create jobs and economic spur growth.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aEdXrfIMdiU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, dear readers, President Kennedy called for across the board tax cuts and tax reform in order to create jobs, grow the economy, and increase federal revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike our <em>Dear Leader<\/em>&#8216;s plan of jacking taxes through the roof, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/reports\/2003\/08\/the-historical-lessons-of-lower-tax-rates\">President Kennedy&#8217;s plan was successful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Tax revenues climbed from $94 billion in 1961 to $153 billion in 1968, an increase of 62 percent (33 percent after adjusting for inflation).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/321591.php\">HT to AoSHQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us set the Way Back Machine to 1962, when a democrat President presented his plan to create jobs and economic spur growth. That&#8217;s right, dear readers, President Kennedy called for across the board tax cuts and tax reform in order to create jobs, grow the economy, and increase federal revenue. Unlike our Dear Leader&#8216;s [&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":[36,6,10,50,52,19,28],"tags":[140,262,294,414,446,584,621,839],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history-history","category-economy","category-history","category-obama-economy-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","category-taxes-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-incompetent","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-one-term-president","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-JQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}