{"id":1504,"date":"2007-03-02T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2007-03-02T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:00:12","slug":"for_the_common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"For The Common Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times reports that most Americans would willingly pay higher taxes<\/a> to pay for universal health care coverage. Conservative true believers cling to the notion that any mention of tax hikes will ignite vociferous cries of protest across the nation, but I’ve long believed that people will pay more taxes if they can clearly see the connection between the sacrifice asked of them and the potential benefit to the public. Americans are smart enough to realize that paying a few more tax dollars to guarantee health care for everyone is preferable to the mess we’re in right now. Slowly and inexorably, conservative ideologues are losing touch with the real concerns of their fellow citizens. <\/p>\n

But this cluelessness really shouldn’t surprise us. We can’t expect much from a group that is still trying to play the word “faggot” for laughs<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times reports that most Americans would willingly pay higher taxes to pay for universal health care coverage. Conservative true believers cling to the notion that any mention of tax hikes will ignite vociferous cries of protest across the nation, but I’ve long believed that people will pay more taxes if they can […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-og","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}