{"id":95,"date":"2005-01-11T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=95"},"modified":"2005-01-11T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T20:16:10","slug":"stand-up-to-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/01\/stand-up-to-the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand up to the Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A63896-2005Jan10.html?referrer=email\">U.S. Tells D.C. to Pay Inaugural Expenses (washingtonpost.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the WP reports, DC is supposed to pay for the Bush Inaugural Security. Don&#8217;t do it. Only spend the money that Congress has allocated for it.  (About a third of the total)<\/p>\n<p>On top of it all, it&#8217;s a federal holiday in the District so the District loses $66M. (I assume that&#8217;s all the city vendors combined and not the tax revenue. )<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not. $66M per business day, 260 business days a year.  $16.5 B a year.  What is DC&#8217;s annual tax revenue? Runs about <a href=\"http:\/\/cfo.dc.gov\/cfo\/frames.asp?doc=\/cfo\/LIB\/cfo\/services\/studies\/dc_taxfacts_2002.pdf&#038;open=|33210|\">$3.5 B a year<\/a> I guess that is the expected general business loss for a federal day off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Tells D.C. to Pay Inaugural Expenses (washingtonpost.com) As the WP reports, DC is supposed to pay for the Bush Inaugural Security. Don&#8217;t do it. Only spend the money that Congress has allocated for it. (About a third of the total) On top of it all, it&#8217;s a federal holiday in the District so the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/01\/stand-up-to-the-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stand up to the Man<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-1x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}