{"id":188403,"date":"2010-10-04T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/04\/not-enough-bullets-72\/"},"modified":"2010-10-04T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:55:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/04\/not-enough-bullets-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, once again, Congress refuses to act, so billionaire hedge fund managers can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/matt-taibbi\/blogs\/TaibbiData_May2010\/213905\/83512\">continue to pay less in taxes than the janitors who clean their offices<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Once again a key piece of news has passed virtually without comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">While the entire nation argues over nonsense like the WTC Mosque, Rick Sanchez, and, yes, blue-red culture war stuff like the Tea Party, congress yesterday quietly took a knee on the \u201ccarried interest\u201d tax question. In doing so they decided not to take a vote on changes already approved by both houses that would scale back perhaps the most preposterous tax break in the entire federal code, one that leaves hedge-fund gazillionaires like Stevie Cohen and John Paulson paying less than half the top tax rate paid by most middle and upper-middle class Americans. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t recognize the writing style, it&#8217;s Matt Taibbi, and I suggest that you read the whole article, because he communicates the disgust that I feel far more cogently that I ever could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, once again, Congress refuses to act, so billionaire hedge fund managers can continue to pay less in taxes than the janitors who clean their offices: Once again a key piece of news has passed virtually without comment. While the entire nation argues over nonsense like the WTC Mosque, Rick Sanchez, and, yes, blue-red culture &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,969,1002,1020,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-legislation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188403"}],"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=188403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}