{"id":12556,"date":"2009-07-13T19:23:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T00:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2009-07-13T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T00:25:13","slug":"clinton-to-ny-drop-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12556","title":{"rendered":"Clinton to NY; Drop Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York State propelled Hillary Clinton into politics by forsaking every other qualified New Yorker for a Semate seat. The former First Lady, who had never lived in the State before her election, <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/national\/hillary.clinton.flip.2.1084002.html\">repaid those folks today<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six months into her tenure as secretary of state she has suddenly exempted diplomats from paying some property taxes here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is totally unfair,&#8221; [NYC Mayor Michael] Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said it&#8217;s not only a double cross but a double flip flop. As New York&#8217;s junior senator, Clinton fought to make diplomats pay up. And he said her reversal changes a longstanding policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since 1873 they&#8217;ve been saying this is taxable,&#8221; Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the mayor predicted that &#8212; freed of paying property taxes &#8212; some governments would see it as a business opportunity to buy up properties and make money renting them out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just patently unfair to New Yorkers and Americans and it contravenes established policy for 130-odd years and it just doesn&#8217;t make sense,&#8221; Bloomberg said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, with the Obama Administration, Americans, who are looking at higher taxes, take a back seat while the clowns in Washington suck up at light speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York State propelled Hillary Clinton into politics by forsaking every other qualified New Yorker for a Semate seat. The former First Lady, who had never lived in the State before her election, repaid those folks today. Six months into her tenure as secretary of state she has suddenly exempted diplomats from paying some property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-united-nations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-3gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}