{"id":3807,"date":"2010-04-21T08:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2010-04-21T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:16:26","slug":"10-of-all-households-pay-no-net-federal-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/04\/21\/10-of-all-households-pay-no-net-federal-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"10% Of All Households Pay No Net Federal Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/14\/business\/economy\/14leonhardt.html\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article in the New York Times by David Leonhardt.<\/p>\n<p>The actual headline is <strong>Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look  Closer<\/strong>.\u00a0 The official headline is misleading when compared to the sentence that I chose from the article as my headline.<\/p>\n<p>The article also states that <q>higher-income people are understating their income<\/q><\/p>\n<p>The article provides a more even handed analysis of who is paying taxes and why than you are likely to get from the sound bites you hear on the radio or TV. I think my choice of emphasis in the headline makes it even more even-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I should point out that some of the 10% who pay no net federal taxes are not among the poor.\u00a0 I may not be in the 10% when you include all kinds of federal taxes, but I have not paid any net <strong>income<\/strong> taxes in two years. What George Bush has done for the economy has given me enough realized investment losses to offset any income taxes I might owe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the article in the New York Times by David Leonhardt. The actual headline is Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look Closer.\u00a0 The official headline is misleading when compared to the sentence that I chose from the article as my headline. The article also states that higher-income people are understating [&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-3807","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\/3807","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=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}