{"id":16941,"date":"2014-04-23T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16941"},"modified":"2014-04-23T20:49:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T00:49:13","slug":"more-effective-remedies-for-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/23\/more-effective-remedies-for-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"More Effective Remedies for Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the post <a title=\"Naked Capitalism post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/04\/effective-remedies-inequality.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\">More Effective Remedies for Inequality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following is Yves Smith&#8217;s comment on the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We had a more equitable society when unions were stronger, taxes were more progressive, and anti-trust laws were enforced. This post by Geoff Davi[e]s serves as a reminder that there are remedies other than progressive taxation (which he regards as an after-the-fact remedy) to achieve that end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just give you a list of topics in the post by Geoff Davies, author of <a title=\"Sck The Economists book link\" href=\"http:\/\/sacktheeconomists.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sack The Economists<\/a>.\u00a0 In the post he only says a paragraph or two about each topic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Financial market speculation<\/li>\n<li>Capturing emergent community wealth<\/li>\n<li>Interest charged on new money<\/li>\n<li>Access to loans<\/li>\n<li>The ownership escalator<\/li>\n<li>Corporate welfare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article is a great way to open our minds to many possible solutions beyond just thinking about income taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the post More Effective Remedies for Inequality. The following is Yves Smith&#8217;s comment on the post: We had a more equitable society when unions were stronger, taxes were more progressive, and anti-trust laws were enforced. This post by Geoff Davi[e]s serves as a reminder that there are remedies other than progressive taxation [&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-16941","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\/16941","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=16941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16942,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions\/16942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}