{"id":721,"date":"2007-05-23T02:32:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T02:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/pds-on-tax\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T02:32:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T02:32:48","slug":"pds-on-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/pds-on-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"PD&#8217;s on Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>does anyone in PD HQ read wikipedia? i guess so, and they agree <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_Democrats\">with the following<\/a>? i guess so.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The party has been a strong supporter of low taxation. As the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economic_and_Social_Research_Institute\" title=\"Economic and Social Research Institute\">Economic and Social Research Institute<\/a> (ESRI) stated in 2002: &#8216;On balance, budgets over the past 10 to 20 years have been more favourable to high income groups than low income groups, but particularly so during periods of high growth.<sup id=\"_ref-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_Democrats#_note-0\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> While the party was in government since 1997, the lower rate of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Income_tax\" title=\"Income tax\">income tax<\/a> fell from 26% to 20% and the upper rate from 48% to 41%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>a lower rate reduction is a reduction for all, a higher rate reduction is for &gt;34001 euro<\/p>\n<p><small>[360\u00b0 = 1 revolution]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>does anyone in PD HQ read wikipedia? i guess so, and they agree with the following? i guess so. The party has been a strong supporter of low taxation. As the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) stated in 2002: &#8216;On balance, budgets over the past 10 to 20 years have been more favourable to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/pds-on-tax\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PD&#8217;s on Tax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}