{"id":543,"date":"2004-01-29T05:28:47","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/the_19th_century_good_life\/"},"modified":"2004-01-29T05:28:47","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T10:28:47","slug":"the_19th_century_good_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/the_19th_century_good_life\/","title":{"rendered":"The 19th Century Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Volokh points us to an enlightening article by former Reagan administration Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts, which argues that <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2004_01_25_volokh_archive.html#107532483671082814\">today&#8217;s taxpayer has less freedom than 19th century slaves<\/a>.<br \/>\nThose lucky slaves.  Imagine their horror if they found themselves condemned to a lifetime of dividend and captial gains taxation.  I&#8217;m sure bondage was the good life in comparison to today&#8217;s suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/the_19th_century_good_life\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The 19th Century Good Life\"><p>Eugene Volokh points us to an enlightening article by former Reagan administration Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts, which argues that today&#8217;s taxpayer has less freedom than 19th century slaves. Those lucky slaves. Imagine their horror if they found themselves condemned to a lifetime of dividend and captial gains taxation. I&#8217;m sure bondage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}