{"id":3354,"date":"2010-02-21T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2010-02-21T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:23:22","slug":"rich-in-2007-made-more-and-had-lower-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/02\/21\/rich-in-2007-made-more-and-had-lower-tax-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich in 2007 Made More And Had Lower Tax Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"T and G Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20100221\/NEWS\/2210334\/1002\/BUSINESS\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article in the Worcester T &amp; G by Ryan J. Donmoyer of Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2007, the last year the economy was expanding in the U.S., the average income of the 400 highest-earning households rose 31% to $345 million, fueled by capital gains and dividends.\u00a0 The data, the latest available, may provide ammunition for Democrats aiming to increase the capital gains tax rate; each household paid an average rate of 16.6% &#8211; the lowest since the Internal Revenue Service started tracking data in 1992.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the set of articles published in the Worcester T &amp; G this Sunday, I can only surmise that there has been a palace coup in the editorial offices of the newspaper.\u00a0 To see so much information in this newspaper supporting the Democratic agenda has left me gasping for breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the article in the Worcester T &amp; G by Ryan J. Donmoyer of Bloomberg News. In 2007, the last year the economy was expanding in the U.S., the average income of the 400 highest-earning households rose 31% to $345 million, fueled by capital gains and dividends.\u00a0 The data, the latest available, [&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-3354","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\/3354","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=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}