{"id":1100,"date":"2010-06-30T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/06\/30\/travel-tax-increasing\/"},"modified":"2010-06-30T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T01:17:09","slug":"travel-tax-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/travel-tax-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Tax Increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little reminder in case you didn&#8217;t hear: you have exactly 14 days to renew your passport or add pages before the prices go the opposite direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/var\/plain\/storage\/images\/media\/obama_total_approval_graphics\/june_2010\/obama_total_approval_june_30_2010\/327390-1-eng-US\/obama_total_approval_june_30_2010.jpg\">Obama&#8217;s approval ratings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A new adult passport goes from $100 to $135.<\/p>\n<p>A kids &#8216; passport, good for a measly 4.5 years will be $105.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to add pages to your passport, there is currently no charge.&#160; The new cost is $82.&#160; That is some expensive paper.&#160; How would you calculate the percentage increase for that?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been thinking of renouncing your U.S. citizenship, don&#8217;t delay.&#160; Free becomes $450.&#160; I kinda think we should pay people $450 to do it.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a full list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travel.state.gov\/news\/news_5078.html\">here<\/a>.&#160; I <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/07\/13\/july-13-and-some-numbers\/\">still<\/a> hate <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/06\/25\/faq-on-our-move\/\">July 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little reminder in case you didn&#8217;t hear: you have exactly 14 days to renew your passport or add pages before the prices go the opposite direction of Obama&#8217;s approval ratings. A new adult passport goes from $100 to $135. A kids &#8216; passport, good for a measly 4.5 years will be $105. If\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/travel-tax-increasing\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saving-you-money","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}