{"id":182842,"date":"2015-05-26T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/26\/quote-of-the-day-151\/"},"modified":"2015-05-26T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:22:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/26\/quote-of-the-day-151\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 391px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=c_cnbc_berniesand_150526\" width=\"381\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It comes from my choice for Democratic nominee for President, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2016\/bernie-sanders-lets-return-tax-policy-radical-socialist-dwight-d-eisenhower\">Bernie Sanders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the interview, Sanders also indicates that he&#8217;d like to see a 90 percent tax rate in the country. After he sarcastically referred to that rate existing under &#8220;<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/b>,&#8221; Harwood asked him if he thought it was too high. &#8220;No. That&#8217;s not 90 percent of your income, you know?&#8221; explained Sanders, &#8220;That&#8217;s the marginal. I&#8217;m sure you have some really right-wing nut types, but I&#8217;m not sure that every very wealthy person feels that it&#8217;s the worst thing in the world for them to pay more in taxes, to be honest with you. I think you&#8217;ve got a lot of millionaires saying, &#8220;You know what? I&#8217;ve made a whole lot of money. I don&#8217;t want to see kids go hungry in America. Yeah, I&#8217;ll pay my fair share.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the bit about, &#8220;Radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The whole discussion (it&#8217;s informal enough that it&#8217;s more of a chat than an interview) with John Harwood, NBC&#8217;s Chief Washington correspondent, is well worth a watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes from my choice for Democratic nominee for President, Bernie Sanders: In the interview, Sanders also indicates that he&#8217;d like to see a 90 percent tax rate in the country. After he sarcastically referred to that rate existing under &#8220;radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower,&#8221; Harwood asked him if he thought it was too high. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1003,978,1027,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-video","category-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182842"}],"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=182842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}