{"id":1458,"date":"2006-06-08T06:21:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T10:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2006-06-08T06:21:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T10:21:47","slug":"imposing-monetary-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"Imposing Monetary Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The IMF said the United States needs to boost its zero rate of savings to help redress global economic imbalances, and argued the Bush administration should consider new taxes on consumer spending.<\/p>\n<p>These would include a national sales tax, a European-style value-added tax, or energy taxation, which &#8220;would maintain revenue buoyancy as workers retire&#8221;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>IMF calls for new taxes in US<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=2629&#038;ncid=2629&#038;e=23&#038;u=\/afp\/20060607\/pl_afp\/imfuseconomy_060607203538\">7 June 2006<\/a> <em>AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dissent.org.uk\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/logoblackwhite.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The IMF said the United States needs to boost its zero rate of savings to help redress global economic imbalances, and argued the Bush administration should consider new taxes on consumer spending. These would include a national sales tax, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-nw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}