{"id":8922,"date":"2012-12-17T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:04:37","slug":"us-senator-tim-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/us-senator-tim-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Tim Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott began the news conference by saying thank you to &#8220;my lord and savior Jesus Christ,&#8221; but quickly moved to the issue that has<br \/>\nand will consume federal lawmakers: the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a spending problem, ladies and gentlemen, and not a revenue problem,&#8221; Scott said after Haley introduced him as the state&#8217;s next U.S. Senator.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is very difficult for us to fix the problem in a nation with $16 trillion in debt and an annual deficit of more than $1 trillion talking about raising revenue<br \/>\nfrom the top two percent. We could take all the revenue on top two percent and could not close the annual deficit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121217-150719.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121217-150719.jpg\" alt=\"20121217-150719.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott began the news conference by saying thank you to &#8220;my lord and savior Jesus Christ,&#8221; but quickly moved to the issue that has and will consume federal lawmakers: the federal budget. &#8220;We have a spending problem, ladies and gentlemen, and not a revenue problem,&#8221; Scott said after Haley introduced him as the state&#8217;s next [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8922","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\/p2gEQ0-2jU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922","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=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}