{"id":5018,"date":"2010-04-09T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2010-04-09T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:34:58","slug":"supply-side-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=5018","title":{"rendered":"Supply-side Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-chait\/why-we-cant-reduce-the-deficit\">Jonathan Chait<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A perceptive student of the supply-side theology might wonder: if revenue from higher taxes will simply be spent, why wouldn&#8217;t revenue from higher growth also be spent? But this question has never been asked, because there are no perceptive students of the supply-side theology. It&#8217;s just a series of talking points.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s worth keeping in mind that the entire conservative apparatus is already cranked up to insist that no tax hikes are acceptable in the pursuit of deficit reduction. I see no way around this problem unless and until the country actually begins to undergo a deficit-created economic calamity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Chait: A perceptive student of the supply-side theology might wonder: if revenue from higher taxes will simply be spent, why wouldn&#8217;t revenue from higher growth also be spent? But this question has never been asked, because there are no perceptive students of the supply-side theology. It&#8217;s just a series of talking points. In any [&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":[47,544,4,458],"tags":[649,2734,146],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism","category-economics","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-jonathan-chait","tag-supply-side","tag-the-new-republic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1iW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","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=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5019,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}