{"id":440,"date":"2004-08-15T00:37:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2004-08-15T00:37:15","modified_gmt":"2004-08-15T00:37:15","slug":"inc_on_a_flat_tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Inc on a flat tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Inc Magazine online: Notes and comments on a potential flat tax.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>After his tax breaks, President Bush is toying with the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/08\/11\/news\/economy\/election_tax\/index.htm\">eliminating the IRS and income tax altogether<\/a>. In lieu of this, a flat federal sales tax would be instituted<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our tax system is a mess and in dire need of a complete re-think.  Let&#8217;s start the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Inc Magazine online: Notes and comments on a potential flat tax. After his tax breaks, President Bush is toying with the idea of eliminating the IRS and income tax altogether. In lieu of this, a flat federal sales tax would be instituted Our tax system is a mess and in dire need of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}