{"id":462,"date":"2007-09-02T03:15:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T09:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=462"},"modified":"2009-10-14T03:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T09:13:31","slug":"no-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"No Pay Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been having a nice debate in the comments on the impact of the Fair Tax. It’s helping me focus and refine my arguments, always a good thing.<\/p>\n

I thought I’d put up two links to bolster my point that the Fair Tax supporters are being deceptive when they tell you:<\/p>\n

a) Prices won’t rise under the Fair Tax
\nb) You will get your whole paycheck.<\/p>\n

This is mathematically impossible. CNN talks about it here<\/a> (search for Daniel Shaviro) and Boortz himself admits it here<\/a>. Hopefully, he’ll put this front and center in his next Fair Tax book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been having a nice debate in the comments on the impact of the Fair Tax. It’s helping me focus and refine my arguments, always a good thing. I thought I’d put up two links to bolster my point that the Fair Tax supporters are being deceptive when they tell you: a) Prices won’t rise … Continue reading No Pay Raise<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-tax","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-7s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}