{"id":5833,"date":"2011-06-30T15:38:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5833"},"modified":"2011-07-02T01:45:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T01:45:36","slug":"andrew-sullivan-meet-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5833","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Sullivan &#8211; Meet reality.  UPDATE."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Andrew%20Sullivan%20-%20Meet%20reality.%20%20UPDATE.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>On his <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/06\/this-just-in-.html\">Daily Dish<\/a> blog, he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans are fine with raising some taxes along with cutting spending in a bid to cut the deficit and the debt. In poll after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/capitalgainsandgames.com\/blog\/bruce-bartlett\/2292\/americans-support-higher-taxes-really\" target=\"_self\">poll after poll after poll<\/a> &#8230; No wonder those socialists in Britain &#8211; aka the Tory party &#8211; has done it too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Tory party to which he refers, is of course, the British Tory party. Well, as we are seeing just today&#8230; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-13967580\">It simply is not enough<\/a>! \u00a0They want even higher\u00a0taxes to support their pension addiction! \u00a0Taxes are raised, so there is now no need to fix the pension system, even though it will still lead you to ruin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0From my blog-pal and kindred spirit The Last Bass Player, who just happens to reside in jolly ol&#8217; England:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The evil British coalition Tory-Liberal government wants higher taxes to support their addiction to claiming expenses for food and second homes. \u00a0The average British citizen has to buy such things out of their own wages. \u00a0Not so politicians, who were claiming for everything from moats to housekeepers (unwillingly and unwittingly paid for, of course, by British tax payers). \u00a0There was a massive scandal about it, but I don\u2019t think anything was changed. \u00a0Except moats, which now have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/expenses-scandal--it-just-gets-worse-1683307.html\">nice shiny new drawbridges<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe strikes are because people have been paying into pension schemes for years \u2013 all their working lives in many cases \u2013 and now the evil British coalition government is threatening to lower the final pension payments, pensions which have already been paid into by the workers themselves. \u00a0The money saved by such a move will of course be recycled into paying for politicians\u2019 moats, and bankers\u2019 bonuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Andrew%20Sullivan%20-%20Meet%20reality.%20%20UPDATE.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>On his Daily Dish blog, he writes: Americans are fine with raising some taxes along with cutting spending in a bid to cut the deficit and the debt. In poll after\u00a0poll after poll after poll &#8230; No wonder those socialists in Britain &#8211; aka the Tory party &#8211; has done it too. The Tory party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5833"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}