{"id":469,"date":"2009-01-24T00:40:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T05:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2009-01-24T00:40:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T05:40:59","slug":"how-to-raise-taxes-without-losing-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/how-to-raise-taxes-without-losing-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Raise Taxes Without Losing Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/images\/tollBooths.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Governor Deval Patrick said today that he was interested in placing tolls on vehicles on interstate highways at the state&#8217;s borders and that his administration had already contacted the federal government, which would need to give its permission, about the idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I would love to see is &#8230; border tolls at all of the interstate entrances, maybe Route 3 as well. In other words, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York. If we did that right, it would be possible to remove all of the tolls inside of the Commonwealth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Patrick rediscovers a timeless political solution: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/01\/patrick_interes.html\"><b>Raise the taxes paid by people who <i>can&#8217;t<\/i> vote against you!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Deval Patrick said today that he was interested in placing tolls on vehicles on interstate highways at the state&#8217;s borders and that his administration had already contacted the federal government, which would need to give its permission, about the idea. &#8220;What I would love to see is &#8230; border tolls at all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127,183,4,199,100,9],"tags":[597,839,635,634,30,633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}