{"id":2697,"date":"2008-05-13T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2008-05-13T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T17:05:40","slug":"the-politics-of-bad-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/05\/13\/the-politics-of-bad-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Bad Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-051308\/2008_05_13_williams.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-051308\/2008_05_13_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/vig-fp.prenhall.com\/bigcovers\/0205600794.jpg\" alt=\"politics of bad ideas\" \/><em>GUEST: Walter Williams, Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Politics Public Policy, Professor Emeritus at the Daniel J Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, co-author of &#8220;The Politics of Bad Ideas&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Republican Senator and presumptive Presidential candidate, John McCain has centered his platform for the US economy on President Bush&#8217;s tax cuts. He wants to make them permanent, despite evidence that they disproportionately benefit the wealthiest Americans. McCain has said that his programs would save $100 billion a year. But the Center for American Progress Action Fund questions that figure. They estimate that the overall cost of McCain\u2019s tax cuts would be three times as much as the $100 billion he estimates that he can save. McCain is backing off from his original pledge to balance the budget by the end of his first term. A new book claims that Bush&#8217;s tax cuts have &#8220;harmed Americans and left the middle class in the worst financial straits since the Great Depression, creating a super-rich elite with the wealth and power to corrupt American democracy.&#8221; The book is entitled, &#8220;The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America,&#8221; and is co-authored by Bryan D. Jones, and Walter Williams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Walter Williams, Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Politics Public Policy, Professor Emeritus at the Daniel J Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, co-author of &#8220;The Politics of Bad Ideas&#8221; Republican Senator and presumptive Presidential candidate, John McCain has centered his platform for the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}