{"id":1075,"date":"2010-09-04T17:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T17:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=515"},"modified":"2010-09-04T17:39:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T17:39:41","slug":"fair-tax-bee-stings-and-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fair Tax,&#8221; bee stings, and such&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rte 90 Run-N-Gun Tour cont<\/em>&#8230; \u00a0 We continued on Rte. 90, stopping in the Wisconsin cities of La Crosse, Madison, Straughton and Beloit. \u00a0 In Madison, I passed out some campaign literature to a man-on-the-street who said he wanted a &#8220;Fair Tax&#8221; instituted. \u00a0 That is, he&#8217;d like to see a uniform Federal &#8220;flat tax&#8221; on all items across the board &#8212; and the elimination of the income tax altogether&#8230; \u00a0 In downtown Beloit, while hopping back into the &#8220;average Joe&#8221; mobile, I sat on a Yellow Jacket bee. \u00a0 While he\/she (to be politically correct) didn&#8217;t sting me at the point of contact, so to speak (thank God), he\/she flew around to the front and stung me on the forearm. \u00a0 Apparently he\/she wasn&#8217;t taken with our platform. \u00a0 Then it was on to Illinois. \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Another oil drilling platform has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0 Could it be we are starting to hit somewhat of a &#8220;bottom&#8221; with our addiction to fossil fuels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rte 90 Run-N-Gun Tour cont&#8230; \u00a0 We continued on Rte. 90, stopping in the Wisconsin cities of La Crosse, Madison, Straughton and Beloit. \u00a0 In Madison, I passed out some campaign literature to a man-on-the-street who said he wanted a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1075\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}