{"id":3278,"date":"2019-07-26T08:06:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:39:50","slug":"fiscal-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3278","title":{"rendered":"Fiscal Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA198.jpg\" alt=\"Fiscal Responsibility\" class=\"wp-image-3279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA198.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA198-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What  a difference a decade makes! Remember in 2009 when Republicans were  absolutely apocalyptic about the size of the national deficit? &#8220;We must  have a balanced budget amendment! We must have fiscal responsibility!  What about our children?! What about our grandchildren?!&#8221; Deficit hawks  birthing kittens on the House and Senate floor. Strange days indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\n the days are no less strange today. Because suddenly none of that seems\n to matter anymore. After years of steady progress in slowing the size \nof our national debt, the Trump administration has succeeded in kicking \nit into overdrive again. And not for sound reasons, like helping to pull\n a distressed economy out of a recession. No, times are good, so I&#8217;m not\n exactly sure what their thought process was. Well, other than a money \ngrab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n any case, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) opined this week that the \nfederal minimum wage should be $20\/hour, not the $15 targeted in a bill \npassed by the House this week. This got way more traction than one would\n expect from a first-term congressperson at an obscure event in Detroit \non a Sunday. But then Tlaib is one of the young, women-of-color \nrepresentatives whom the President has decided to bully. This then \nqualifies as news. Even though there isn&#8217;t the remotest chance the \nfederal minimum wage is going up at all anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\n let&#8217;s say it were a possibility. There are several very good reasons to\n argue against a swift rise to $20\/hour. But can you see why a young, \nlow-wage worker would be loathe to accept them from an older &#8220;fiscal \nconservative&#8221;?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference a decade makes! Remember in 2009 when Republicans were absolutely apocalyptic about the size of the national deficit? &#8220;We must have a balanced budget amendment! We must have fiscal responsibility! What about our children?! What about our grandchildren?!&#8221; Deficit hawks birthing kittens on the House and Senate floor. Strange days indeed. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","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=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3282,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}