{"id":4442,"date":"2010-07-24T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2010-07-24T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T23:15:13","slug":"senator-gregg-obama-commission-will-call-for-trillions-in-tax-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/07\/24\/senator-gregg-obama-commission-will-call-for-trillions-in-tax-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Gregg: Obama Commission Will Call for Trillions in Tax Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama debt commission member, Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, launched a scary trial balloon on ABC News. Gregg suggested the debt commission will likely recommend a massive $26.7 trillion tax increase. Here are Gregg&#8217;s actual words:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything has to be on the table &#8211; there&#8217;s no question about that&#8230; Erskine Bowles, one of the co-chairmen of the commission, has suggested a 75-25 split &#8212; 75 percent of the savings being in spending, and 25 percent in revenues&#8230; I think it&#8217;s likely that there will have to be a revenue component, but it should be significantly, dramatically &#8212; and a 3-1 ratio is pretty dramatic &#8212; dramatically less than the initiatives in the spending side of the ledger.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/FloydandMaryBethBrown\/2010\/07\/24\/obama_commission_will_call_for_trillions_in_tax_hikes\"><br \/>\nRead more at Town Hall&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama debt commission member, Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, launched a scary trial balloon on ABC News. Gregg suggested the debt commission will likely recommend a massive $26.7 trillion tax increase. Here are Gregg&#8217;s actual words: &#8220;Everything has to be on the table &#8211; there&#8217;s no question about that&#8230; Erskine Bowles, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}