{"id":283,"date":"2009-07-27T14:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2009-07-27T21:53:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T01:53:59","slug":"audax-toujours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/audax-toujours\/","title":{"rendered":"Audax toujours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/lets_get_real.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thaddeus Tremayne<\/a> may appear to have gone off his medications when he proposed this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think it behooves us to begin spreading this idea: that people who work in the public sector should be exempt from having to pay tax. All tax.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But he really does have a valid and interesting point:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No, what I am proposing is the stripping away of a fig-leaf that disguises the very important distinction between tax-payers and tax-consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, only those who earn their living in the private or voluntary sector are tax-payers and while public sector employees do file tax returns and, on the face of it, pay their taxes too, this is a mere bookkeeping fiction. They are the recipients of tax, adding nothing to the public purse. The number of people who fail to understand this distinction, holding instead that &#8220;we are all taxpayers&#8221; is alarmingly high. By forcing the public sector to lead tax-free lives, we make their true status not just clearer but undeniable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Consider the meme-spreading to have started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thaddeus Tremayne may appear to have gone off his medications when he proposed this: I think it behooves us to begin spreading this idea: that people who work in the public sector should be exempt from having to pay tax. All tax. But he really does have a valid and interesting point: No, what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}