{"id":696980,"date":"2010-03-21T07:55:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/21\/bartlett-tea-partiers-clueless-about-taxes\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:55:34","slug":"bartlett-tea-partiers-clueless-about-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/696980","title":{"rendered":"Bartlett: Tea Partiers Clueless About Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.drudge.com\/~r\/retort\/~3\/HIC7ZDoksI8\/bartlett-tea-partiers-clueless-taxes\" >Bartlett: Tea Partiers Clueless About Taxes       <\/a><br \/>Tea Party members are misinformed about taxes, Bruce Bartlett writes in <i>Forbes<\/i> &#8220;According to the CBO, the highest figure for all federal taxes since 1970 came in the year 2000, when they reached 20.6% of GDP. As we know, after that George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress cut federal taxes; they fell to 18.5% of GDP in 2007, before the recession hit, and 17.5% in 2008. Tuesday&#8217;s Tea Party crowd, however, thought that federal taxes were almost three times as high as they actually are. The average response was 42% of GDP and the median 40%. The highest figure recorded in all of American history was half those figures: 20.9% at the peak of World War II in 1944.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/retort\/~4\/HIC7ZDoksI8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bartlett: Tea Partiers Clueless About Taxes Tea Party members are misinformed about taxes, Bruce Bartlett writes in Forbes &#8220;According to the CBO, the highest figure for all federal taxes since 1970 came in the year 2000, when they reached 20.6% of GDP. As we know, after that George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VjC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}