{"id":11450,"date":"2017-11-11T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11450"},"modified":"2017-11-11T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:43:11","slug":"taxes-it-shouldnt-be-a-dirty-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/taxes-it-shouldnt-be-a-dirty-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes: it shouldn&#8217;t be a dirty word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article from Heather Mallick from <strong>The Star<\/strong>. She points out the incongruity that taxes give us things that we treasure, yet no politician can ever say they&#8217;re raising taxes. In short, taxes are &#8220;the price we pay for civilization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2017\/05\/01\/why-i-love-taxes-and-so-should-you-mallick.html?google_editors_picks=true\">Why I love taxes \u2014 and so should you: Mallick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We should be willing to consider paying a bit more to help a few more people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article from Heather Mallick from The Star. She points out the incongruity that taxes give us things that we treasure, yet no politician can ever say they&#8217;re raising taxes. In short, taxes are &#8220;the price we pay for civilization.&#8221; Why I love taxes \u2014 and so should you: Mallick We should be willing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-11450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11451,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450\/revisions\/11451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}