{"id":39803,"date":"2017-08-27T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39803"},"modified":"2017-08-16T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:02:53","slug":"why-the-rich-like-high-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/27\/why-the-rich-like-high-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Rich Like High Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tK_d9s2pqrk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 16 Aug 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When politicians raise taxes on the rich, what do the rich do to protect their $$$? This Prof. shows how high taxes actually made America less equal.<\/p>\n<p>The Myth of Equality in the 1950s (video): Another myth of the 1950s is that there was economic equality. Prof. Brian Domitrovic explains why this is a myth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wLl9wOivHdc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wLl9wOivHdc<\/a><br \/>\nHow Cronyism is Hurting the Economy (video): Prof. Jason Brennan explains why cronyism, like the tax cuts for certain businesses in the 1950s, is bad for the economy and argues why limiting the government\u2019s power would help solve the problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gSgUENZ9O94\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gSgUENZ9O94<\/a><br \/>\nThe Good Ol&#8217; Days: When Tax Rates Were 90 Percent (article): Andrew Syrios compares the tax rates in the 1950s to those of the 1980s and today <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/good-ol-days-when-tax-rates-were-90-percent\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/good-ol-days-when-tax-rates-were-90-percent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<br \/>\nFor a full transcript please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnliberty.org\/videos\/why-the-rich-like-high-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.learnliberty.org\/videos\/why-the-rich-like-high-taxes\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 16 Aug 2017 When politicians raise taxes on the rich, what do the rich do to protect their $$$? This Prof. shows how high taxes actually made America less equal. The Myth of Equality in the 1950s (video): Another myth of the 1950s is that there was economic equality. Prof. Brian Domitrovic explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[831,25,84,13],"tags":[1063,698,727,118,315],"class_list":["post-39803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-usa","tag-1950s","tag-congress","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-taxes","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-alZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39803","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=39803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39804,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39803\/revisions\/39804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}