{"id":1132,"date":"2008-09-26T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T17:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2008-09-26T09:27:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T14:27:35","slug":"fun-fact-about-john-mccain-11-fiscal-irresponsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact About John McCain #11: Fiscal Irresponsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">[digg-reddit-me]John McCain will balance the budget by cutting earmark spending.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><a title=\"Not even close\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/fact-checker\/2008\/05\/mccains_fantasy_war_on_earmark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Not even close<\/a> <\/strong><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">. <\/span>Ever heard of the &#8220;<a title=\"starve-the-beast\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starve_the_beast\" target=\"_blank\">starve-the-beast<\/a>&#8221; strategy? It&#8217;s about the only thing that explains either <a title=\"this\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.venturacountystar.com\/greenberg\/archives\/2008\/08\/deficits.html\" target=\"_blank\">this history<\/a> or why McCain&#8217;s tax cuts (estimated to cost as much as <a title=\"$700 billion a year\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxpolicycenter.org\/UploadedPDF\/411750_updated_candidates_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">$700 billion a year<\/a> [PDF]) far exceed the cost of earmarks (total pork spending since <em><strong>1991<\/strong><\/em> has totaled about <a title=\"$271 billion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagw.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2008\" target=\"_blank\">$271 billion<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]John McCain will balance the budget by cutting earmark spending. Not even close . Ever heard of the &#8220;starve-the-beast&#8221; strategy? It&#8217;s about the only thing that explains either this history or why McCain&#8217;s tax cuts (estimated to cost as much as $700 billion a year [PDF]) far exceed the cost of earmarks (total pork spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[544,22,45,4],"tags":[814,813,564],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","tag-earmarks","tag-pork-barrel-spending","tag-starve-the-beast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-ig","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}