{"id":178405,"date":"2018-12-08T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/08\/understanding-the-yellow-vest-movement\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:59:00","slug":"understanding-the-yellow-vest-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/08\/understanding-the-yellow-vest-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Yellow Vest Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can talk about what is, and is not, causing this phenomenon, but at its core, it boils down to this statement, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/frances-gas-tax-disaster-shows-we-cant-save-earth-by-sc-1830877858\">France&#8217;s Gas Tax Disaster Shows We Can&#8217;t Save Earth by Screwing Over Poor People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>French President Emanuel Macron has been cutting taxes on the rich, and raising taxes on everyone else, ever since entering office.<\/p>\n<p>This is a well deserved smack-down of an investment banker who has seen his role as making life easier for other investment bankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can talk about what is, and is not, causing this phenomenon, but at its core, it boils down to this statement, &#8220;France&#8217;s Gas Tax Disaster Shows We Can&#8217;t Save Earth by Screwing Over Poor People.&#8221; French President Emanuel Macron has been cutting taxes on the rich, and raising taxes on everyone else, ever since &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[392,371,597,374,590,480],"class_list":["post-178405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-inequality","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}