{"id":227,"date":"2026-07-28T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:56:40","slug":"rt-by-chicagocontrar1-even-the-washingtonpost-is-fact-checking-julianastratton-on-medicare-for-all-from-the-wa-po-ed-board-medicare-for-all-cant-be-paid-for-by-taxing-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"\u200bRT by @ChicagoContrar1: Even the @washingtonpost is fact-checking @JulianaStratton on Medicare-for-All. From the Wa-Po Ed Board: &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221; can&#8217;t be paid for by taxing billionaires alone. Someone else gets the bill&#8230; (Spoiler alert: It&#8217;s you.) IL already knows how this works: Politicians, like Stratton, promise a great big, shiny, new government program, swear someone else will pay, and then your taxes go up. Medicare-for-All really means Higher-Taxes-for-All. https:\/\/dontracyforil.com\/press-releases?slug=don-tracy-washington-post-debunks-stratton-s-healthcare-tax-myth\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/washingtonpost\" title=\"The Washington Post\">@washingtonpost<\/a>  is fact-checking <a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/JulianaStratton\" title=\"Juliana Stratton\">@JulianaStratton<\/a> on Medicare-for-All.<\/p>\n<p>From the Wa-Po Ed Board: &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221; can&#8217;t be paid for by taxing billionaires alone. Someone else gets the bill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Spoiler alert: It&#8217;s you.)<\/p>\n<p>IL already knows how this works: Politicians, like Stratton, promise a great big, shiny, new government program, swear someone else will pay, and then your taxes go up.<\/p>\n<p>Medicare-for-All really means Higher-Taxes-for-All.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dontracyforil.com\/press-releases?slug=don-tracy-washington-post-debunks-stratton-s-healthcare-tax-myth\">dontracyforil.com\/press-rele\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Link<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dontracyforil.com\/press-releases?slug=don-tracy-washington-post-debunks-stratton-s-healthcare-tax-myth\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/card_img%2F2080632174915522560%2FlRVRsyFj%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Don Tracy: Washington Post Debunks Stratton\u2019s Healthcare Tax Myth &#8211; Don Tracy for US Senate<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don Tracy is a Republican candidate for US Senate in Illinois. He will lower the cost-of-living for working families, champion common sense solutions, not extreme agendas, and represent all of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/dontracyforil.com\/press-releases?slug=don-tracy-washington-post-debunks-stratton-s-healthcare-tax-myth\">dontracyforil.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the @washingtonpost is fact-checking @JulianaStratton on Medicare-for-All. From the Wa-Po Ed Board: &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221; can&#8217;t be paid for by taxing billionaires alone. Someone else gets the bill&#8230; (Spoiler alert: It&#8217;s you.) IL already knows how this works: Politicians, like Stratton, promise a great big, shiny, new government program, swear someone else will pay, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}