{"id":2070,"date":"2014-11-18T08:11:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2014-11-18T08:14:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:14:23","slug":"where-does-your-hard-earned-tax-money-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"Where Does Your Hard-Earned Tax Money Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MLMG146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2071\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MLMG146.jpg\" alt=\"Where Does Your Hard-Earned Tax Money Go?\" width=\"560\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MLMG146.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MLMG146-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/11\/MLMG146.jpg&amp;name=Where Does Your Hard-Earned Tax Money Go?...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>November 16, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I think the big winner in the 2014 election turned out to be the cranks. The what? The cranks. You know, folks who say it&#8217;s all going to hell, that people are awful, government is hopeless, life used to be much better. Now it&#8217;s all ruined. What&#8217;s the use? Throw the bums out. If I were in charge, I&#8217;d &lt;insert something over-simplified and vaguely racist&gt;. That sort of thing. A crank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m not saying cranks can&#8217;t be right. And I can&#8217;t say they don&#8217;t deserve to be heard. (Obviously they voted.) I&#8217;m just saying that it&#8217;s okay to poke a little fun at them. And point out that indignation is not always\u00a0righteous. I will offer my own rabbit tracks\u00a0down various Wikipedia trails\u00a0as evidence that all the money taken from me in taxes was not necessarily hard-earned. So for all the cranks who have been and will be online shopping at work, let&#8217;s\u00a0check ourselves with all that &#8220;hard-earned&#8221; talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News November 16, 2014 I think the big winner in the 2014 election turned out to be the cranks. The what? The cranks. You know, folks who say it&#8217;s all going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}