{"id":3541,"date":"2010-12-11T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/jefferson-writing-madison-about-taxes\/"},"modified":"2010-12-11T16:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T22:43:15","slug":"jefferson-writing-madison-about-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/jefferson-writing-madison-about-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Writing Madison About Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2010\/12\/thomas-jefferson-on-wealth-inequality.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29\">Thomas Jefferson on Wealth Inequality &#8211; Grasping Reality with Both Hands<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2010\/12\/thomas-jefferson-on-wealth-inequality.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29\">Thomas Jefferson on Wealth Inequality &#8211; Grasping Reality with Both Hands<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geometrical progression! The roots of the tree of liberty must be watered with the excess wealth of the rich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson on Wealth Inequality &#8211; Grasping Reality with Both Hands Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Thomas Jefferson on Wealth Inequality &#8211; Grasping Reality with Both Hands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/jefferson-writing-madison-about-taxes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jefferson Writing Madison About Taxes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}