{"id":29259,"date":"2021-12-16T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29259"},"modified":"2021-12-16T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T04:27:07","slug":"the-great-inheritors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2021\/12\/16\/the-great-inheritors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Inheritors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ProPublica <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-great-inheritors-how-three-families-shielded-their-fortunes-from-taxes-for-generations\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Inheritors: How Three Families Shielded Their Fortunes From Taxes for Generations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn the early 1900s some of the wealthiest Americans claimed their fortunes would never last through the generations. A century of tax avoidance later, the dynasties are going strong.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a long article which I have not completed reading yet.  The part that I have read is enough to give me an idea of how our current wealth inequality was created, and who are the people who created it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProPublica has the article The Great Inheritors: How Three Families Shielded Their Fortunes From Taxes for Generations. In the early 1900s some of the wealthiest Americans claimed their fortunes would never last through the generations. A century of tax avoidance later, the dynasties are going strong. This is a long article which I have not [&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-29259","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\/29259","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=29259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29260,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions\/29260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}