{"id":28594,"date":"2019-09-14T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28594"},"modified":"2019-09-14T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T20:25:34","slug":"wealth-taxes-and-sigh-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28594","title":{"rendered":"Wealth Taxes and :( sigh ): This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23 minutes &#8211; This comes from NPR&#8217;s . Its about the Ultra Rich wealth tax of Elizabeth Warren. Since my college days forty years ago I&#8217;ve been worried that an unfair system leads to pitchforks too. Look at Revolutionary France. Look at today&#8217;s Venezuela. Look at the Tea Party railing against the gentle treatment of bankers to gave us the mortgage crisis.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/24\/744962126\/episode-929-could-a-wealth-tax-work\"> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/24\/744962126\/episode-929-could-a-wealth-tax-work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would take an amendment to the Constitution which would be a very high hurdle to leap over. I&#8217;d support it.<\/p>\n<p>2 minutes &#8211; And then Donald Trump takes the one decent, laudable thing he said in the last four years and slits its throat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/14\/760683504\/opinion-president-trump-claims-he-was-at-ground-zero-on-sept-11-but-was-he\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/14\/760683504\/opinion-president-trump-claims-he-was-at-ground-zero-on-sept-11-but-was-he<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 minutes &#8211; This comes from NPR&#8217;s . Its about the Ultra Rich wealth tax of Elizabeth Warren. Since my college days forty years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28595,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28594\/revisions\/28595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}