{"id":181012,"date":"2016-10-28T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/28\/quote-of-the-day-96\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:48:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/28\/quote-of-the-day-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Make benefits as universal as possible, and make rich people pay more in taxes. That&#8217;s how you means test things. The rest is needless complexity designed to suck the life out of people who have it hard already.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2016\/10\/kiss.html\">Duncan &#8220;Atrios&#8221; Black<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s talking about how the Obama\/Clinton wing of the party insists on people jumping through hoops to get social benefits.&nbsp; **Cough** Obamacare  **Cough**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make benefits as universal as possible, and make rich people pay more in taxes. That&#8217;s how you means test things. The rest is needless complexity designed to suck the life out of people who have it hard already. \u2014Duncan &#8220;Atrios&#8221; Black He&#8217;s talking about how the Obama\/Clinton wing of the party insists on people jumping &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":[813,868],"class_list":["post-181012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-philosophy","tag-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181012"}],"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=181012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}