{"id":943,"date":"2012-07-25T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T22:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2012-07-25T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T22:10:17","slug":"six-policies-economists-love-and-politicians-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Six Policies Economists Love And Politicians Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One: Eliminate the mortgage tax deduction, which lets homeowners deduct the interest they pay on their mortgages. Gone. After all, big houses get bigger tax breaks, driving up prices for everyone. Why distort the housing market and subsidize people buying expensive houses?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2012\/07\/19\/157047211\/six-policies-economists-love-and-politicians-hate\">Six Policies Economists Love And Politicians Hate : Planet Money : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One: Eliminate the mortgage tax deduction, which lets homeowners deduct the interest they pay on their mortgages. Gone. After all, big houses get bigger tax breaks, driving up prices for everyone. Why distort the housing market and subsidize people buying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}