{"id":118835,"date":"2025-12-20T20:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=118835"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:47:56","slug":"favorite-tweets-32448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=118835","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">. @zachweinberg is right on this, but the other problem with just increasing taxes is that there is zero discipline on behalf of politicians to utilize that excess to actually reduce the deficit. I would bet 1,000:1 that any marginal increase in government receipts will be offset https:\/\/t.co\/YJul8ZEfM1<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Scott Kupor (@skupor)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skupor\/status\/2002444588238393616\">Dec 20, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/skupor<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. @zachweinberg is right on this, but the other problem with just increasing taxes is that there is zero discipline on behalf of politicians to utilize that excess to actually reduce the deficit. I would bet 1,000:1 that any marginal increase in government receipts will be offset https:\/\/t.co\/YJul8ZEfM1 &mdash; Scott Kupor (@skupor) Dec 20, 2025 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=118835\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-118835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118836,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118835\/revisions\/118836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118835"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=118835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}