{"id":3413,"date":"2011-11-29T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:18:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:18:17","slug":"things-to-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Things to Tax&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per Nobelist Paul Krugman, a tax on financial transactions could raise &#8220;several hundred billion dollars in revenue over the next decade&#8221;.<\/p><p>He also notes that Hong Kong and Singapore, &#8220;the two countries that score highest on the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Index of Economic Freedom,&#8221; already have such taxes.<\/p><p>Also per Krugman: &#8220;high-income taxation could shave more than $1 trillion off the deficit.&#8221;<\/p><p>That would have a bigger impact on reducing the deficit than any of the major party proposals, including reducing Social Security and Medicare.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/28\/opinion\/krugman-things-to-tax.html\" title=\"Things to Tax\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Nobelist Paul Krugman, a tax on financial transactions could raise &#8220;several hundred billion dollars in revenue over the next decade&#8221;.He also notes that Hong Kong and Singapore, &#8220;the two countries that score highest on the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Index of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=3413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}