{"id":3366,"date":"2012-08-24T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T18:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/3366"},"modified":"2012-08-25T06:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T14:48:36","slug":"3366-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2012\/08\/24\/3366-2","title":{"rendered":"Donations Buy Access\u2026 Why Not Taxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of a din\u00adner for the top tax\u00adpay\u00aders. That\u2019s bril\u00adliant. If dona\u00adtions buy access, then why not tax\u00ades?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/08\/sentences-to-ponder-49.html\">Sen\u00adtences to pon\u00adder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&amp;gadget=a&amp;resize_h=100&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmarginalrevolution.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2F9781429239974.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I find it remark\u00adable that I have yet to receive a thank you note for pay\u00ading my tax\u00ades. When I fill out my tax\u00ades, I notice that even receipts for $25 dona\u00adtions have thank you notes attached. But for t\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of a din\u00adner for the top tax\u00adpay\u00aders. That\u2019s bril\u00adliant. If dona\u00adtions buy access, then why not tax\u00ades? Sen\u00adtences to pon\u00adder \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I find it remark\u00adable that I have yet to receive a thank you note for pay\u00ading my tax\u00ades. When I fill out my tax\u00ades, I notice that even receipts for $25 \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2012\/08\/24\/3366-2\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cDona\u00adtions Buy Access\u2026 Why Not Tax\u00ades?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-asides","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Si","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}