{"id":212,"date":"2007-04-24T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2007-04-24T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T23:50:00","slug":"hogs-at-the-trough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/hogs-at-the-trough\/","title":{"rendered":"hogs at the trough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">This was not a good day for the taxpayer, of the votes cast:<br \/>Elimination of competitive grants lost 31-9<br \/>Elimination of National Green Bean museum lost 28-14<br \/>$320 million in tax relief tabled on voice vote<br \/>$81 million in tax relief lost 25-17<br \/>Total elimination of sales tax this year lost 24-18<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This video is a perfect example of Tuesday\u2019s (4\/24) deliberations on the budget.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinbryant.blogspot.com\/2003\/04\/2007-earmarks.html#links\">Click here to see complete list<\/a><br \/>A short list of earmarks: $950,000 National Green Bean Museum in Lake City, $200,000 Randolph Cemetery in Columbia, $550,000 Johnsonville Library in Florence, $500,000 Weldon Auditorium in Clarendon, $500,000 Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, $500,000 York Museum, $225,000 Abbeville Courthouse renovation, $100,000 Spartanburg Humane Society, $800,000 Anderson parks, $300,000 Horry parks, $500,000 Reedy River project, $990,000 Greenwood sewer line, $500,000 Camp Spearhead, $950,000 City of Easley, $3,900,000 Florence County Museum.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was not a good day for the taxpayer, of the votes cast:Elimination of competitive grants lost 31-9Elimination of National Green Bean museum lost 28-14$320 million in tax relief tabled on voice vote$81 million in tax relief lost 25-17Total elimination of sales tax this year lost 24-18 This video is a perfect example of Tuesday\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-3q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}