{"id":3673,"date":"2020-12-24T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=143177"},"modified":"2020-12-24T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:37:34","slug":"the-ugly-part-of-the-900-billion-stimulus-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/24\/the-ugly-part-of-the-900-billion-stimulus-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Part of the $900 Billion Stimulus Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Jeffrey D. Sachs<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>The two parties don&#8217;t even try anymore to forge a public consensus on what we need to spend on and what we should tax. Neither party seemingly assesses long-term spending needs, nor proposes a tax structure to align with those needs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/views-article\/thumbs\/gettyimages-83951850.jpg?itok=bN2YCbEF\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Politicians voiced their opinions, but they didn&#039;t listen to the public&#039;s opinions in any systematic manner.  (Photo by Brendan Hoffman\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/24\/the-ugly-part-of-the-900-billion-stimulus-bill\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey D. Sachs The two parties don\u2019t even try anymore to forge a public consensus on what we need to spend on and what we should tax. Neither\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}