{"id":13627,"date":"2023-02-03T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:58:14","slug":"ibon-ed-on-ng-debt-dec22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/ibon-ed-on-ng-debt-dec22\/","title":{"rendered":"IBON Executive Director on the national government outstanding debt as of December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"4000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt.png\" alt=\"IBON Executive Director Sonny Africa on the national government outstanding debt as of December 2022:'The problem isn't that the debt can't be paid. It can and is being paid.The problem is that it's disproportionately paid by the poor and middle class -- through VAT, excise and other consumption taxes, underfunded social services, budget cuts in cash assistance.Fiscal management can be humane -- and billionaires can pay more with a wealth tax.'VAT - value added tax\" class=\"wp-image-13628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt.png 4000w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-70x70.png 70w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-110x110.png 110w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203-sonny-on-dec22-debt-1000x1000.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1813],"tags":[1376,978,3143,2184,1623,2275],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13630,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions\/13630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}