{"id":18714,"date":"2012-12-21T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18714"},"modified":"2012-12-21T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T09:12:11","slug":"what-we-now-know-about-republicans-is-theyd-do-anything-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/21\/what-we-now-know-about-republicans-is-theyd-do-anything-for-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"What we now know about Republicans is they&#8217;d do anything for the rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/dec\/21\/boehner-fiscal-cliff-bill-withdrawn\" target=\"_blank\">we now know about the Republicans<\/a> in the USA is that rather than vote to save the US economy and avoid massive tax rises on the middle classes they'll vote down all compromise to prevent a tax rise on the rich alone.<\/p>\n<p>Not so far from George Osborne then, after all.<\/p>\n<p>What's\u00a0astonishing\u00a0is their ability to win support in a democracy. That can only be explained by the\u00a0corporate\u00a0capture of the democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps that's almost the most worrying part of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we now know about the Republicans in the USA is that rather than vote to save the US economy and avoid massive tax rises<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/21\/what-we-now-know-about-republicans-is-theyd-do-anything-for-the-rich\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}