{"id":79322,"date":"2022-03-29T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79322"},"modified":"2022-03-29T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:50:22","slug":"79322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79322","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/equality-not-elitism\/the-big-problem-with-bidens-new-minimum-tax-on-billionaires\">THE BIG PROBLEM WITH BIDEN\u2019S NEW \u2018MINIMUM TAX\u2019 ON BILLIONAIRES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does a president do when inflation surges under his watch, gas prices are out of control, and his signature legislation has failed miserably ?<\/p>\n<p>Pivot back to scapegoating the rich, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s President Joe Biden\u2019s latest tactic. On Monday, Biden proposed a new \u201cminimum tax\u201d on billionaires. \u201cFor too long, our tax code has rewarded wealth, not work, and contributed to growing income and wealth inequality in America,\u201d Biden said in a statement. \u201cUnder current law, when an American worker earns a dollar of wages, that dollar is taxed as they earn it. But when a billionaire earns income because their investments increase in value, that gain is too often never taxed at all.\u201d&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Philosophically, I certainly understand the desire not to increase taxes on high earners. But I also understand the reverse,\u00a0as in they helped in a big way to install this regime, so let them get it good and hard.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donsurber.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/soak-billionaires.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soak the billionaires<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;..actual conservatives have very few rich benefactors. They have many more billionaire oppressors.<br \/>\nMark Zuckerberg used Facebook to silence Trump and other patriots opposed to the fascism rising from the halls of Congress.<br \/>\nZuckerberg also paid off state election officials to rig the election in Wisconsin.<br \/>\nTwitter censors us as well.<br \/>\nJeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.<br \/>\nBill Gates is funding biolab research in Red China.<br \/>\nThe Internet oligarchs are power-mad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BIG PROBLEM WITH BIDEN\u2019S NEW \u2018MINIMUM TAX\u2019 ON BILLIONAIRES What does a president do when inflation surges under his watch, gas prices are out of control, and his signature legislation has failed miserably ? Pivot back to scapegoating the rich, apparently. At least, that\u2019s President Joe Biden\u2019s latest tactic. On Monday, Biden proposed a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79323,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79322\/revisions\/79323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}