{"id":61,"date":"2008-09-14T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cedarsdigest.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/14\/comparing-the-obama-and-mccain-tax-plans"},"modified":"2008-09-14T04:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T08:26:00","slug":"comparing-the-obama-and-mccain-tax-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/uncategorized\/comparing-the-obama-and-mccain-tax-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing the Obama and McCain tax plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chartjunk.karmanaut.com\/wp-content\/images\/taxplans.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chartjunk.karmanaut.com\/wp-content\/images\/taxplans.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/chartjunk.karmanaut.com\/wp-content\/images\/wapo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chartjunk.karmanaut.com\/wp-content\/images\/wapo.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/chartjunk.karmanaut.com\/\">chartjunk<\/a> (a blog dedicated to eradicating bad charts, named after a term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tufte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Tufte<\/a> coined): They have redone the Washington Post&#8217;s chart which compares the Obama and McCain tax plans.    Rightly pointing out that the top two brackets represent only 1%, but yet get around 20% of the physical chart. Their chart is more honestly to scale (or at least tries to be).  It is on top, and the WaPo is below<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/DOCUME%7E1\/criener\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\" \/><br \/>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/chartjunk.karmanaut.com\/taxplans\/\">whole original post<\/a>, if you want more details.<\/p>\n<p>Use this to complement your use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obamataxcut.com\/\">http:\/\/www.Obamataxcut.com<\/a><br \/>At least one of these pictures belongs in an ad somewhere (or am I just a huge nerd for wanting a bar chart in a political ad?)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/10439744-691006340197187620?l=cedarsdigest.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;From chartjunk (a blog dedicated to eradicating bad charts, named after a term Edward Tufte coined): They have redone the Washington Post&#8217;s chart which compares the Obama and McCain tax plans. Rightly pointing out that the top two brackets represent only 1%, but yet get around 20% of the physical chart. Their chart is more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Pqh9-Z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}