{"id":39875,"date":"2021-09-13T15:41:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T22:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39875"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T22:41:37","slug":"house-democrats-take-step-back-from-biden-on-tax-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39875","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats take step back from Biden on tax hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">House Democrats on Monday released tax-increase legislation that scales back some of\u00a0President Biden\u2019s key proposals, as they work to craft a massive social spending package that can get the votes to become law.<\/p>\n<p>The bill text released Monday by the House Ways and Means Committee includes a variety of tax increases targeted at wealthy individuals and corporations in an effort to help pay for $3.5 trillion in spending and tax cuts in areas such as child care, climate and health care.<\/p>\n<p>But in many ways it is not as aggressive in raising taxes as Biden has proposed, prompting criticism from progressive groups.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats on Monday released tax-increase&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39876,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875\/revisions\/39876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}