{"id":689,"date":"2009-01-05T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T23:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2009-01-05T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T23:17:44","slug":"food-tax-heartburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Food tax heartburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. G.A. Hardaway, D-Memphis, is sponsoring the current attempt to further <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20090105\/NEWS0201\/901050338\">lower the sales tax on groceries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Former Rep. David Fowler, now of the Family Action Council, has a very <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\/*1231196488792*\/\">thoughtful and thorough look<\/a> at all sides of this proposal.&nbsp; Although I often disagree with Fowler because of his alliance with conservative social causes, he&#8217;s absolutely spot-on with his analysis of what legislators are up against with this vote.<\/p>\n<p>For Legislators, it&#8217;s a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don&#8217;t decision.&nbsp; Those who vote against the reduction will be painted as tax-and-spenders, while those who vote for it will bear the blame for an irresponsible decision leading to further painful cuts in services provided to Tennesseans &#8212; education, health care, public safety, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factn.org\/taxingdecision.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read Fowler&#8217;s piece<\/a>, and keep it in mind when the issue heats up later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. G.A. Hardaway, D-Memphis, is sponsoring the current attempt to further lower the sales tax on groceries. Former Rep. David Fowler, now of the Family Action Council, has a very thoughtful and thorough look at all sides of this proposal.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}