{"id":1629,"date":"2017-04-25T12:44:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2017-04-25T12:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:44:48","slug":"north-korea-chess-match-6-4-billion-in-tax-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"North Korea chess match; $6.4 billion in tax prep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American aircraft carrier is steaming toward North Korea. \u00a0In the face of a UN Security Council resolution banning test missile launches, North Korea continues to defy that. \u00a0It&#8217;s a high stakes geopolitical chess match. \u00a0That is as we move the carrier into place, we have to be cognizant of the 30,000 American troops (plus South Korean troops) aligned on the border. \u00a0While North Korea can&#8217;t reach the U.S. with a nuclear missile yet &#8212; it can reach South Korea&#8230; \u00a0Just prior to April 15 this year, a news report indicated Americans now spend a whopping $6.4 billion a year on tax preparation. \u00a0It was also reported the Trump administration is considering floating a tax reform proposal that would include some version of a flat tax across the board with a simple one page (or even postcard-size) filing form. \u00a0[Ted Cruz advocated for this during the Republican primaries.] \u00a0Our administration would advocate for a &#8220;simplified progressive tax&#8221; &#8212; which we believe would be fairer to those less well off &#8212; with an easy one page filing form as well. \u00a0For more on this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/taxes\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American aircraft carrier is steaming toward North Korea. \u00a0In the face of a UN Security Council resolution banning test missile launches, North Korea continues to defy that. \u00a0It&#8217;s a high stakes geopolitical chess match. \u00a0That is as we move <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1629\"><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-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}