{"id":3183,"date":"2011-11-10T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2011-11-10T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:53:00","slug":"luxury-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservatives admit to overspending by $420,000 and are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/news\/politics\/2011\/11\/10\/conservatives-fined-for-breaking-elections-laws-but-tories-claim-outcome-a\/28761\">found guilty<\/a> of breaking election laws.<\/p>\n<p>The punishment?<\/p>\n<p>A $50,000 fine&#8230;or about the amount they&#8217;ll raise from their next anti-CBC e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Which is kind of appropriate, since they never got more than a political slap on the wrist for the &#8220;in and out scandal&#8221;. The blame for that may rest on the opposition parties for bad branding &#8211; had it been dubbed the &#8220;Conservative money laundering scandal&#8221;, they might have got some legs out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservatives admit to overspending by $420,000 and are found guilty of breaking election laws. The punishment? A $50,000 fine&#8230;or about the amount they&#8217;ll raise from their next anti-CBC e-mail. Which is kind of appropriate, since they never got more than a political slap on the wrist for the &#8220;in and out scandal&#8221;. The blame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}