{"id":615,"date":"2008-11-22T20:49:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T00:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2009-02-25T17:58:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T21:58:44","slug":"government-wish-list-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Government wish list &#8211; 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More serious items &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>End war in Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Serious regulation of financial markets<\/li>\n<li>Graduated income tax on corporations, enough to make it unprofitable to be &#8220;too big to be allowed to fail&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Much more steeply graduated income tax on individuals, more like it was before the Reagan era<\/li>\n<li>Normalization of relations with Cuba, allow free travel and trade<\/li>\n<li>Reconciliation of relations with Venezuela, Chavez doesn&#8217;t have to like us but we could quit calling him names<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Less serious but I still wish:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Invite Pete Seeger to perform at the inauguration. I would love to see Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie lead the entire nation in singing &#8220;This Land is Your Land.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--0cba839d0a44b21e6e56fe16652468e2--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More serious items &#8211; End war in Iraq Serious regulation of financial markets Graduated income tax on corporations, enough to make it unprofitable to be &#8220;too big to be allowed to fail&#8221; Much more steeply graduated income tax on individuals, more like it was before the Reagan era Normalization of relations with Cuba, allow free &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government wish list &#8211; 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}