{"id":6752,"date":"2012-09-20T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/via-the-one-tax-graph-you-really-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T21:49:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T21:49:37","slug":"via-the-one-tax-graph-you-really-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/via-the-one-tax-graph-you-really-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6752 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/via-the-one-tax-graph-you-really-need-to-know\/attachment\/6753\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_mans4kwfcu1qzozgbo1_640.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_mans4kwfcu1qzozgbo1_640.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_mans4kwfcu1qzozgbo1_640.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_mans4kwfcu1qzozgbo1_640.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/09\/19\/heres-why-the-47-percent-argument-is-an-abuse-of-tax-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The one tax graph you really need to know<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Very interesting read. Here&rsquo;s a paragraph for you:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When politicians try to convince you that half of Americans aren\u2019t really paying taxes, it\u2019s usually because the real data undermines their preferred policies.\u00a0For instance, you wouldn\u2019t look at these numbers and think tax cuts for the rich need to be a huge priority. And that\u2019s one reason people who want more tax cuts for the rich don\u2019t like to show you these numbers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/09\/19\/heres-why-the-47-percent-argument-is-an-abuse-of-tax-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the entire post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via The one tax graph you really need to know) Very interesting read. Here&rsquo;s a paragraph for you: When politicians try to convince you that half of Americans aren\u2019t really paying taxes, it\u2019s usually because the real data undermines their preferred policies.\u00a0For instance, you wouldn\u2019t look at these numbers and think tax cuts for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1774,169,2504],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data","tag-politics","tag-taxes","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}