{"id":1255,"date":"2011-12-05T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T20:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2011-12-05T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T20:07:41","slug":"what-the-super-committee-couldnt-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"What the “Super Committee” couldn’t do…"},"content":{"rendered":"

And you think the Super Committee had problems…\u00a0 I talked last week with Tom Eckelberry who is the president of the Harrod, Ohio (pop. 400), Village Council.\u00a0\u00a0Harrod is\u00a0one of a handful of towns that don’t assess a tax on resident incomes.\u00a0 However, that’s about to change. At a public hearing about this, some 30 rather upset residents showed up to air their concerns.\u00a0 (Read: They didn’t want to be taxed more.)\u00a0 Amidst the vocal protest hub bub, Eckelberry offered a creative “compromise solution.”\u00a0 There’d be a new tax (1%).\u00a0 However, after city expenses were met each year — there’d be a rebate to residents out of what wasn’t used.\u00a0 The residents thought this was a fair compromise.\u00a0 Amazing…\u00a0<\/em> This small town village council president was able to come up with an extremely common sense\u00a0approach that worked.\u00a0 Yet these high profile politicians in D.C., with all these supposed smarts, ended up: stymied.\u00a0 Incidentally, it’s the Tom Eckelberrys of the country who we want to take to D.C. with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And you think the Super Committee had problems…\u00a0 I talked last week with Tom Eckelberry who is the president of the Harrod, Ohio (pop. 400), Village Council.\u00a0\u00a0Harrod is\u00a0one of a handful of towns that don’t assess a tax on resident …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","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=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}