{"id":9604,"date":"2011-04-10T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2011-04-10T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:45:55","slug":"you-have-a-budget-deficit-but-you-ban-the-hiring-of-new-tax-agents-now-why-would-you-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/10\/you-have-a-budget-deficit-but-you-ban-the-hiring-of-new-tax-agents-now-why-would-you-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"You have a budget deficit &#8211; but you ban the hiring of new tax agents. Now why would you do that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US budget went though in the end.<\/p>\n<p>There was the inevitable horse trading.<\/p>\n<p>One important part - to get the deal through the Republicans demanded that it be agreed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0411\/52850.html\">IRS could hire no new agents.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the US has a budget deficit and the easiest way to solve it is to collect the tax owing - but the Republicans refuse that option.<\/p>\n<p>The only explanations are:<\/p>\n<p>- seeking to undermine the rule of law<\/p>\n<p>- seeking to undermine democracy<\/p>\n<p>- stupidity<\/p>\n<p>- all three of those noted previously.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US budget went though in the end. There was the inevitable horse trading. One important part &#8211; to get the deal through the Republicans<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/10\/you-have-a-budget-deficit-but-you-ban-the-hiring-of-new-tax-agents-now-why-would-you-do-that\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-management","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604","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=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}