{"id":257,"date":"2003-09-05T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2018-08-03T13:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:26:51","slug":"257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/257\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Holden Proposes to Eliminate Loopholes For Small-, Medium-Sized Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Governor <b>B. Holden<\/b> has called a special session of the legislature to increase state revenue as much as he can without calling for a full statewide vote for approval.  By eliminating tax &#8220;loopholes,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/Missouri+State+News\/B29CC4F0B4B6AA6D86256D96005086DA?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Holden+calls+special+session&#038;highlight=2%2Cholden\" target=\"new\">this story<\/a> in the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>, B. Holden wants to raise state money to spend on <i><b>The Children<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Governor <b>B. Holden<\/b> undoubtedly wishes to reassure the really large companies in Missouri, the Fords, the Boeings, and the Anheuser-Busches, as well as the sports teams, that their loopholes won&#8217;t be closed.  Any time they start scuffing their feet and publicly muse about closing a factory or (heh heh) moving the ball team to <i>East St. Louis<\/i>, your state government will still be ready to shut off your tax liability entirely, add costly infrastructure to support your plants, or build you a whole freaking stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember not to flaunt it before the rabble populace he continues to flout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Governor B. Holden has called a special session of the legislature to increase state revenue as much as he can without calling for a full statewide vote for approval. By eliminating tax &#8220;loopholes,&#8221; according to this story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, B. Holden wants to raise state money to spend on The Children. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21784,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/21784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}