{"id":6577,"date":"2016-04-20T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2016-04-20T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:36:09","slug":"delegate-for-corporate-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6577","title":{"rendered":"Delegates for Corporate Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly managed to pass a tax subsidy worth $37.5 million for Northrup Grumman but not to enact the increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIRC) that both houses favor. Laudably, the House\u00a0 did not tie the EITC increase to a tax cut for the wealthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6535\">like the Senate<\/a> but instead adopted a broad based tax cut.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the corporate welfare for Northrup Grumman easily passed the House of Delegates 76-57. Twenty-eight House Democrats supported this giveaway, including several who identify themselves as progressive leaders in the House:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-Dem-Del.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-Dem-Del.jpg\" alt=\"NG Dem Del\" width=\"336\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-Dem-Del.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-Dem-Del-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a>Eight Democrats didn&#8217;t vote on the issue, including a few members of the House leadership team:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-Dem-NV.jpg\" alt=\"NG Dem NV\" width=\"341\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-Dem-NV.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-Dem-NV-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two Republicans stood for conservative principles and did not give away your tax dollars to a corporation that already does quite well at the federal trough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-GOP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-GOP.jpg\" alt=\"NG GOP\" width=\"341\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-GOP.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NG-GOP-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly managed to pass a tax subsidy worth $37.5 million for Northrup Grumman but not to enact the increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIRC) that both houses favor. Laudably, the House\u00a0 did not tie the EITC increase to a tax cut for the wealthy like the Senate but instead adopted a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delegates for Corporate Welfare<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1820],"tags":[1822],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-welfare","tag-house-of-delgates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1I5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}