{"id":17135,"date":"2010-04-16T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-16-apr-2010-200pm.html"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:00:56","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-fri-16-apr-2010-200pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-16-apr-2010-200pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Fri, 16 Apr 2010,  2:00PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/iGA0xxbfJ4k\/taxes_at_lowest_levels_in_60_years.html\">Taxes at Lowest Levels in 60 Years<\/a> &#8211; Money quote: &#8220;The relation between what is said in the tax debate and what is true about tax policy is often quite tenuous.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. 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