{"id":516,"date":"2011-10-03T15:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=516"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T19:16:54","slug":"mitt-romney%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98buffett-rule%e2%80%99-problem-his-tax-rate-is-14-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/mitt-romney%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98buffett-rule%e2%80%99-problem-his-tax-rate-is-14-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney\u2019s \u2018Buffett Rule\u2019 Problem: His Tax Rate Is 14 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/10\/03\/334305\/romney-buffett-rule-14-percent-tax-rate\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/romney1003.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When President Obama released his plan to implement the \u201cBuffett rule\u201d \u2014 which would ensure that millionaires can\u2019t pay a lower tax rate than middle-class families \u2014 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney derided it as \u201cclass warfare,\u201d saying it is \u201csimply the wrong way to go.\u201d But as Time\u2019s Michael Scherer pointed out today, Romney may have a tough time defending his opposition to the Buffett Rule, as one of its highest profile targets could well be\u2026Romney himself:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/10\/03\/334305\/romney-buffett-rule-14-percent-tax-rate\/\">Mitt Romney\u2019s \u2018Buffett Rule\u2019 Problem: His Tax Rate Is 14 Percent | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; When President Obama released his plan to implement the \u201cBuffett rule\u201d \u2014 which would ensure that millionaires can\u2019t pay a lower tax rate than middle-class families \u2014 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney derided it as \u201cclass warfare,\u201d saying it is \u201csimply the wrong way to go.\u201d But as Time\u2019s Michael Scherer pointed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[303,304,243,26,302,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}