{"id":2774,"date":"2025-04-03T06:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:33:53","slug":"republicans-impose-largest-tax-increase-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"Republicans impose largest tax increase in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, Trump imposed tariffs on pretty much all imported goods, the largest tax increase in US history.  This will drive up inflation and trigger a recession that will cause high unemployment.  Trump is using a tariff authority meant for emergencies that Congress gave Presidents.  <strong>Republicans could fix this today<\/strong> by passing a law removing the tariffs and removing Trump&#8217;s authority to impose them.  The Republican party is choosing this huge tax increase and crashing the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 2: collect bribes from companies that want tariff exemptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/...\/trump-business-executive...\">Trump demands millions&#8217; for 15-minute meetings as execs scramble to stay on his good side<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trump imposed tariffs on pretty much all imported goods, the largest tax increase in US history. This will drive up inflation and trigger a recession that will cause high unemployment. Trump is using a tariff authority meant for emergencies that Congress gave Presidents. Republicans could fix this today by passing a law removing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}