{"id":24853,"date":"2011-12-26T10:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/vox-populi.html"},"modified":"2011-12-26T12:31:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T19:31:50","slug":"vox-populi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/vox-populi.html","title":{"rendered":"Vox populi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But we&#39;ll still keep hearing the GOP arguing that &quot;the people&quot; don&#39;t want any increase in taxes.  Wonder which &quot;people&quot; they&#39;re talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind, I&#39;m not particularly enthusiastic about paying more in taxes. But the question that always has to come up in conjunction is <i>for what<\/i>.  To help those who are struggling in this economy? Of course; that&#39;s what a Good Neighbor does.  To pay down the deficit? A fine idea, though not the highest priority right this second. To buy more F22s?  Probably not a good investment of money at the moment. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic5.businessinsider.com%2Fimage%2F4b74477000000000006ab8cc%2F23-polls-say-people-support-higher-taxes-to-pay-down-our-debt.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/23-polls-say-people-support-higher-taxes-to-reduce-the-deficit-2011-8?utm_source=twbutton&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_term&#038;utm_content&#038;utm_campaign=politics-contributor'>23 Polls Say People Support Higher Taxes To Pay Down Our Debt<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWoah.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But we&#39;ll still keep hearing the GOP arguing that &quot;the people&quot; don&#39;t want any increase in taxes. Wonder which &quot;people&quot; they&#39;re talking about. Bear in mind, I&#39;m not particularly enthusiastic about paying more in taxes. But the question that always has to come up in conjunction is for what. To help those who are struggling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/vox-populi.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vox populi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":24853,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":24853,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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