{"id":8566,"date":"2013-10-06T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8566"},"modified":"2013-10-06T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T19:58:45","slug":"mel-watt-introduces-new-performance-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8566","title":{"rendered":"Mel Watt introduces new &#8220;performance tax&#8221; bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/watt.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=2649&#038;Itemid=66\">http:\/\/watt.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=2649&#038;Itemid=66<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mel Watt represents the 12th Congressional District, a legacy of the Voting Rights Act &#8211; the district combines the black portions of 3 far away cities and the farmland in between on the naive belief that black people vote for politicians based on their skin color.<\/p>\n<p>Mel has introduced the Oxymoronic Free Market Royalty Act, which would use government force to require radio stations to pay musicians for playing their music.  The last time a bill like this was introduced, Kathy Hughes (the founder of Black Radio company Radio One) was forced into the position of having to oppose the bill intended to force &#8220;white&#8221; radio station owners to pay black musicians for playing their music &#8211; but that such a &#8220;tax&#8221; would push so-called Black Radio ino bankruptcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/watt.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=2649&#038;Itemid=66 Mel Watt represents the 12th Congressional District, a legacy of the Voting Rights Act &#8211; the district combines the black portions of 3 far away cities and the farmland in between on the naive belief that black people vote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8566\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,133,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-black-radio","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8570,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions\/8570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}