{"id":113,"date":"2025-06-18T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:06:02","slug":"fun-treasury-secretary-bessent-v-democrats-wyden-and-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Fun! Treasury Secretary Bessent v. Democrats Wyden and Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another Senate hearing allowing senators to bloviate for their constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders hardly let&#8217;s Bessent get a word in as he as he attacks estate tax exemptions. Does he realize raising the estate tax enrichs life insurance companies? Isn&#8217;t that another industry he hates?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZXImjQioA3Y?si=jIN3pfau9TPIvsdH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To his credit, Wyden at least lets Bessent respond.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h4gXLabmCWQ?si=Z4eQ1I7mC2wvymKQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another Senate hearing allowing senators to bloviate for their constituents. Sanders hardly let&#8217;s Bessent get a word in as he as he attacks estate tax exemptions. Does he realize raising the estate tax enrichs life insurance companies? Isn&#8217;t that another industry he hates? &nbsp; To his credit, Wyden at least lets Bessent respond.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}