{"id":849,"date":"2009-08-06T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2009-08-06T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T22:44:00","slug":"rip-the-bandage-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/rip-the-bandage-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip the bandage off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"315\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Njg8GY_IRuw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Njg8GY_IRuw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object height=\"315\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4X8T2pXehDk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4X8T2pXehDk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different; an argument for a progressive tax.  I used to think the &#8220;death tax&#8221; applied to everyone.  But it only applies to estates which have a significant amount of money.  Does it prevent the consolidation of resources in a single family line?  Or does it take from the family of the deserving and put the resources to dubious use in the hands of the political elite?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"340\" height=\"285\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QLD0p1QpcI8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QLD0p1QpcI8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"285\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something completely different; an argument for a progressive tax. I used to think the &#8220;death tax&#8221; applied to everyone. But it only applies to estates which have a significant amount of money. Does it prevent the consolidation of resources in a single family line? Or does it take from the family of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}