{"id":1247,"date":"2005-04-10T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2005-04-10T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-10T00:00:11","slug":"a_tax_increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"A Tax Increase that President Bush Didn&#8217;t Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/10\/business\/yourmoney\/10view.html?ex=1270785600&#038;en=e2d0fb8926ad6db6&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Edmund Andrews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>CYNICS have long predicted that the Bush administration, plagued by budget deficits, will eventually start raising taxes. But now it is becoming clear how it would do so: the alternative minimum tax.<br \/>\nBaffling in its complexity and often bizarre in its impact, the alternative minimum tax is a giant undeclared tax increase that will ensnare tens of millions of moderate-income families in the next several years.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund Andrews: CYNICS have long predicted that the Bush administration, plagued by budget deficits, will eventually start raising taxes. But now it is becoming clear how it would do so: the alternative minimum tax. Baffling in its complexity and often bizarre in its impact, the alternative minimum tax is a giant undeclared tax increase that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}