{"id":1949,"date":"2010-05-23T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1949\/readers-comments-on-business-news-st-petersburg-times-2\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:00:16","slug":"readers-comments-on-business-news-st-petersburg-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1949\/readers-comments-on-business-news-st-petersburg-times-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers&#8217; comments on business news &#8211; St. Petersburg Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/business\/letters\/article1091680.ece'>Readers&#8217; comments on business news &#8211; St. Petersburg Times<\/a><br \/>What a well-written opinion. It&#8217;s too bad we can&#8217;t lock Congress in a room and let them hash out a new tax code. This is a good starting point. We can do bailouts and stimulus packages till we&#8217;re blue in the face, but until we change tax policy to  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/newsflash\/business\/index.ssf?\/base\/business-70\/127448144290910.xml&#038;storylist=business'>AP BUSINESS NEWS &#8211; MLive.com<\/a><br \/>Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is seeking regulatory approval to again increase rates for individual health insurance policies. Citing persistent losses in the individual market, Blue Cross Blue Shield said today it   s asking for a 9.9 percent  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.thespectrum.com\/article\/20100523\/BUSINESS\/100523005\/Local Business  News In Brief'>Local Business News In Brief &#8211; Spectrum<\/a><br \/>ST. GEORGE &#8211; Allconnect has received a Customer Excellence Award for Operational Effectiveness from NICE Systems in recognition of significant improvement in sales center operations contributing to stellar financial results for the company in 2009  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers&#8217; comments on business news &#8211; St. Petersburg TimesWhat a well-written opinion. It&#8217;s too bad we can&#8217;t lock Congress in a room and let them hash out a new tax code. This is a good starting point. We can do bailouts and stimulus packages till we&#8217;re blue in the face, but until we change tax &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1949\/readers-comments-on-business-news-st-petersburg-times-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Readers&#8217; comments on business news &#8211; St. Petersburg Times<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}