{"id":133,"date":"2003-10-04T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T10:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/wordpress\/?p=0"},"modified":"2013-01-20T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:08:30","slug":"pie-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/133","title":{"rendered":"Pie In The Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Tories would tax people less than Labour if they won the next general election, Iain Duncan Smith has said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The party leader claimed the goal would be achieved by cutting &#8216;bureaucracy and waste&#8217; in public services.&#8221; &#8211; <i>BBC News<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Iain, we haven&#8217;t yet forgotten about the bureaucracy and waste the Tories created last time they were in power. And I prefer the Lib Dem&#8217;s system of being honest and saying they&#8217;ll increase taxes to pay for better services. I particularly like them promising to get rid of the Council Tax, which is one of the most unfair taxes ever created.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with politics is it doesn&#8217;t matter how great your policies are; if they don&#8217;t appeal to people&#8217;s greed you won&#8217;t get voted in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Tories would tax people less than Labour if they won the next general election, Iain Duncan Smith has said. &#8220;The party leader claimed the goal would be achieved by cutting &#8216;bureaucracy and waste&#8217; in public services.&#8221; &#8211; BBC News Unfortunately for Iain, we haven&#8217;t yet forgotten about the bureaucracy and waste the Tories created &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/133\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}