{"id":10884,"date":"2024-05-28T15:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2024-05-28T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:26:10","slug":"is-madison-willing-to-pay-for-a-sales-tax-at-the-price-a-republican-legislature-will-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10884","title":{"rendered":"Is Madison willing to pay for a sales tax at the price a Republican legislature will charge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/05\/28\/is-madison-willing-to-pay-for-a-sales-tax-at-the-price-a-republican-legislature-will-charge\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/05\/28\/is-madison-willing-to-pay-for-a-sales-tax-at-the-price-a-republican-legislature-will-charge\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should five percent appear too smallBe thankful I don\u2019t take it all\u2018Cause I\u2019m the taxmanYeah, I\u2019m the taxman \u2014 G. Harrison, The Beatles How serious is Madison city government about balancing its budget? Rather than address the over-spending that created its $27 million structural deficit, alders are chasing a rainbow-colored unicorn \u2014 a city sales [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/05\/28\/is-madison-willing-to-pay-for-a-sales-tax-at-the-price-a-republican-legislature-will-charge\/ Should five percent appear too smallBe thankful I don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":9711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10885,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions\/10885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}