{"id":3069,"date":"2010-10-25T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2011-04-18T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T18:55:16","slug":"morning-read-how-would-the-greens-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/25\/morning-read-how-would-the-greens-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  How would the Greens do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Hawkins, who&#8217;s running for governor on the Green Party ticket, was in Glens Falls over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He laid out his agenda for balancing the state&#8217;s budget without slashing programs.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_09ace95e-df14-11df-bd2b-001cc4c002e0.html\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Hawkins&#8217; campaign, a stock transfer tax, which serves as a trading fee of one twentieth of 1 percent for up to $350 per trade, would have brought in $16 billion to the state last year.<\/p>\n<p>Another $8 billion would be brought in from a progressive income tax system, where taxes would be up to 15 percent for the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>And $10 billion would come from a bankers&#8217; bonus tax of 50 percent, Hawkins said, putting that in the context of trillions of dollars in bank bailouts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a question:\u00a0 Is Hawkins&#8217; agenda any more fringey than that of tea party favorite Carl Paladino?<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for Paladino&#8217;s personal wealth, would he be grabbing headlines and finding such a big bully pulpit for his ideas?<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Hawkins, who&#8217;s running for governor on the Green Party ticket, was in Glens Falls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}