{"id":26272,"date":"2011-08-22T14:51:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26272"},"modified":"2011-08-22T14:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:51:44","slug":"zombie-voluntary-tax-rates-and-personalized-earmarks-how-to-solve-the-debate-over-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26272","title":{"rendered":"Zombie: Voluntary Tax Rates and Personalized Earmarks: How to Solve the Debate over Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Zombie sent us a link to the latest post at <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/zombie\/2011\/08\/22\/voluntary-tax-rates-and-personalized-earmarks-how-to-solve-the-debate-over-taxes\/\">Pajama Media<\/a> in response to the recent spate of the real rich (as opposed to us regular people who the Democrats consider &#8220;the rich&#8221;). Zombie offers a solution to those rich folks who don&#8217;t think they pay enough in taxes and a new 1040 tax return form for the masses so we won&#8217;t feel guilty about not paying &#8220;our fair share&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, billionaire investor Warren Buffett publicly announced that he wants the government to raise his taxes, because, he feels, he just isn\u2019t paying enough. Soon after, fellow billionaire Donald Trump joined Buffett in announcing the he too would at least be willing to pay more taxes if necessary. Then millionaire TV host Jerry Springer joined the chorus of wealthy Americans demanding that their own tax rates be raised.<\/p>\n<p>These high-profile champions of increased self-taxation are simply the most visible members of an entire sector of the American public who demand that we as a nation raise our own taxes to pay for our ever-increasing expenses. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/zombie\/2011\/08\/22\/voluntary-tax-rates-and-personalized-earmarks-how-to-solve-the-debate-over-taxes\/\">read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Zombie sent us a link to the latest post at Pajama Media in response &hellip; <a title=\"Zombie: Voluntary Tax Rates and Personalized Earmarks: How to Solve the Debate over Taxes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26272\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zombie: Voluntary Tax Rates and Personalized Earmarks: How to Solve the Debate over Taxes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}