{"id":16804,"date":"2014-04-15T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16804"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:13:14","slug":"something-everyone-should-know-on-tax-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/15\/something-everyone-should-know-on-tax-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Something everyone should know on Tax Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube<\/em> has the video <a title=\"YouTube video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NdV_CfDRjDc\" target=\"_blank\">Something everyone should know on Tax Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Robert Reich has a special Tax Day message, explaining why the wealthiest 1% pay a much lower tax rate than the rest of us&#8211;and what we can do about it. You can sign his petition here: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/sign\/the-1-should-pay-their\" href=\"http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/sign\/the-1-should-pay-their\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/sign\/the-1-should-pay-their<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NdV_CfDRjDc?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><em>Alternet <\/em>has a transcript of the video in the story <a title=\"The Alternet story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/economy\/robert-reich-happy-tax-day-video-why-1-pay-much-lower-rate-you\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich: Happy Tax Day VIDEO\u2014Why the 1% Pay a Much Lower Rate than You<\/a>. I have lost my faith in <em>Alternet<\/em>, but the transcript seems pretty faithful.\u00a0 Here is the last statement in the video.\u00a0 I have a bone to pick with it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the rich are let off the hook in all these ways, the rest of America has to pay more in taxes to make up the difference \u2013 or have services cut because government doesn\u2019t have the funds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish that Reich wouldn&#8217;t reinforce the myth that on the federal level their is any concept such as &#8220;&#8230;\u00a0 government doesn\u2019t have the funds&#8221;.\u00a0 The federal government creates the funds it spends.\u00a0 Unless it runs out of computer bits there can never be a situation where the federal government does not have the funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Something everyone should know on Tax Day. Robert Reich has a special Tax Day message, explaining why the wealthiest 1% pay a much lower tax rate than the rest of us&#8211;and what we can do about it. You can sign his petition here: http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/sign\/the-1-should-pay-their Alternet has a transcript of the video [&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-16804","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\/16804","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=16804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16807,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16804\/revisions\/16807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}