{"id":15949,"date":"2014-01-27T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2014-01-27T16:02:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:02:03","slug":"the-20-richest-americans-are-greedy-takers-not-inspirational-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/27\/the-20-richest-americans-are-greedy-takers-not-inspirational-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20 Richest Americans Are Greedy Takers\u2014Not Inspirational &#8216;Makers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alternet<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Alternet article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/economy\/20-richest-americans-are-greedy-takers-not-inspirational-makers\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The 20 Richest Americans Are Greedy Takers\u2014Not Inspirational &#8216;Makers&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They have all taken from the public or from employees, or through taxes or untaxed inheritances.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe top individuals on the 2013\u00a0 Forbes 400 list are generally believed to be makers of great companies or concepts. They are the role models of Paul Ryan, who\u00a0 laments, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to a majority of takers versus makers in America.&#8221; They are defended by Cato Institute CEO\u00a0 John A. Allison IV, who once protested: &#8220;Instead of an attack on the 1 percent, let&#8217;s call it an attack on the very productive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But many of the richest Americans are takers. The top twenty, with a total net worth of almost\u00a0 two-thirds of a trillion dollars, have all taken from the public or from employees, or through taxes or untaxed inheritances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the article to see if your favorite billionaire is on this list.\u00a0 Decide if they built it themselves or had help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the article The 20 Richest Americans Are Greedy Takers\u2014Not Inspirational &#8216;Makers&#8217;. They have all taken from the public or from employees, or through taxes or untaxed inheritances. . . . The top individuals on the 2013\u00a0 Forbes 400 list are generally believed to be makers of great companies or concepts. They are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15950,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions\/15950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}