{"id":1552,"date":"2014-05-25T18:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T01:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:21:36","slug":"bring-back-our-tax-dollars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/bring-back-our-tax-dollars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back Our Tax Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>by Jane Hare and Vicki Ryder<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">taxes<\/span> fly over the ocean,<br \/>\nTo <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fund<\/span> the Afghanistan war,<br \/>\nBut our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">taxes<\/span> are urgently needed,<br \/>\nRight <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span> for the jobless and poor.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>\nBring back, bring back,<br \/>\nOh bring back those taxes and spend them here,<br \/>\nBring \u2018em back, yes bring \u2018em back,<br \/>\nAnd then how we Grannies will cheer!<\/p>\n<p>Our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bridges<\/span> and highways are crumbling,<br \/>\nOur <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">teachers<\/span> and schools need support,<br \/>\nThe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">money<\/span> that\u2019s now spent on killing,<br \/>\nShould be used to wage peace and not war.<\/p>\n<p>REPEAT CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should<\/span> be supporting our students,<br \/>\nWho <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">struggle<\/span> to pay for their loans,<br \/>\nAnd we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should<\/span> be supporting our families,<br \/>\nWhile the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">banks<\/span> just foreclose on their homes.<\/p>\n<p>REPEAT CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">worked<\/span> mighty hard for the money,<br \/>\nThat we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pay<\/span> every year to the Feds,<br \/>\nAnd we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">don\u2019t<\/span> want it paying for warfare,<br \/>\nWhen we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span> could have healthcare instead.<\/p>\n<p>REPEAT CHORUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean by Jane Hare and Vicki Ryder Our taxes fly over the ocean, To fund the Afghanistan war, But our taxes are urgently needed, Right here for the jobless and poor. CHORUS: Bring back, bring back, Oh bring back those taxes and spend them here, Bring \u2018em back, yes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}