{"id":9892,"date":"2011-08-19T09:33:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2011-08-19T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:33:06","slug":"tax-the-rich-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/tax-the-rich-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax The Rich States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/126481\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>, we have this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/virginia-politics\/post\/mcdonnell-announces-5448-million-budget-surplus\/2011\/08\/18\/gIQATrITNJ_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGov. Bob McDonnell (R) announced Thursday that Virginia has finished its fiscal year with a surplus of $544.8 million through higher-than-expected tax revenue and savings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And suddenly, the idea comes to me: The Federal Government should <em>tax the rich states!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mean, why should the fiscally prudent legislators and governor in Virginia get to keep that surplus?  I believe when you spread the wealth around states, it&#8217;s good for everyone, especially California, New York, Illinois, and other blue state fiscal disaster areas.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it punishes the mostly red states and encourages them to spill every drop of taxpayer sweat they can.<\/p>\n<p>Damn, it&#8217;s a good thing I&#8217;m not a Democratic strategist.  I&#8217;m awful devious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Instapundit, we have this story: Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) announced Thursday that Virginia has finished its fiscal year with a surplus of $544.8 million through higher-than-expected tax revenue and savings. And suddenly, the idea comes to me: The Federal Government should tax the rich states! I mean, why should the fiscally prudent legislators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892","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=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9895,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions\/9895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}