{"id":9432,"date":"2017-10-08T21:27:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T02:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=9432"},"modified":"2017-12-06T18:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:55:04","slug":"letter-paulsen-proves-hes-in-the-1-percent-club-by-supporting-tax-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/08\/letter-paulsen-proves-hes-in-the-1-percent-club-by-supporting-tax-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Paulsen proves he\u2019s in the 1-percent club by supporting tax plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sailor.mnsun.com\/2017\/10\/03\/letter-paulsen-proves-hes-in-the-1-percent-club-by-supporting-tax-plan\/\">Published October 3, 2017 at 12:51 pm, Sun Sailor-Plymouth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>I was disappointed but unsurprised that Congressman Erik Paulsen supports the Trump tax plan. The elimination of a state tax deduction will disproportionately hurt Minnesotans. The huge giveaway to corporations that send jobs overseas hurts all Americans. The multi-billion dollar tax break for billionaires while everyone else continues to pay the same is a cynical payback to those who fund our broken election system.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Minnesotan Republican delegation also loves the plan. We need no further proof that Republican is the party of the 1 percent, a special club which, by definition, 99 percent of us are not allowed in!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Laden<br \/>\nPlymouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published October 3, 2017 at 12:51 pm, Sun Sailor-Plymouth To the Editor: I was disappointed but unsurprised that Congressman Erik Paulsen supports the Trump tax plan. The elimination of a state tax deduction will disproportionately hurt Minnesotans. The huge giveaway to corporations that send jobs overseas hurts all Americans. The multi-billion dollar tax break for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/08\/letter-paulsen-proves-hes-in-the-1-percent-club-by-supporting-tax-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter: Paulsen proves he\u2019s in the 1-percent club by supporting tax plan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026],"tags":[416,1019,1020,1021,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Greg_Laden_Blog_Typewriter_Feature_Image.png?fit=960%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2s8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9434,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions\/9434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}