{"id":2081,"date":"2005-03-23T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2018-07-06T07:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:16:56","slug":"2081","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/2081\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside What Box?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While declining to support a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/metro\/mar05\/311934.asp\" target=\"_new\">local sales tax increase<\/a> for some communities in Wisconsin so that those communities could then spend the money, Wisconsin state senator Alberta Darling had some confusing praise:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I applaud them for thinking outside the box, but I don&#8217;t want to add another tax,&#8221; Darling said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adding another tax is <i>outside the box<\/i>?  A sales tax increase represents creativity in government in the suburbs of Milwaukee?<\/p>\n<p>Pardon my skepticism, but that doesn&#8217;t sound new at all.  It sounds rather&#8230;.common for government &#8220;leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While declining to support a local sales tax increase for some communities in Wisconsin so that those communities could then spend the money, Wisconsin state senator Alberta Darling had some confusing praise: &#8220;I applaud them for thinking outside the box, but I don&#8217;t want to add another tax,&#8221; Darling said. Adding another tax is outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20400,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/20400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}