{"id":2269,"date":"2006-04-05T22:18:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2006-04-05T22:18:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T22:18:01","slug":"when_the_little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2269","title":{"rendered":"When the Little Guy Helped the Wealthy Keep Their Tax Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailthis.clickability.com\/et\/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&amp;etMailToID=1288495968\">Cynthia Crossen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The problem came to light during a Senate investigation of the 1929 stock-market crash: Some of America&#8217;s wealthiest citizens, including the banker J.P. Morgan and his partners, were legally paying nothing in federal income taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The solution, endorsed by majorities of both parties in Congress: Make individuals&#8217; income-tax information public, and shame the evaders into paying their fair share.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Revenue Act of 1934, anyone who filed a federal tax return would also complete another &#8212; pink &#8212; form, with his or her name, address, income, deductions and total taxes paid. Everything on the pink slips was public information, available to reporters, nosy neighbors or former spouses alike.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Crossen: The problem came to light during a Senate investigation of the 1929 stock-market crash: Some of America&#8217;s wealthiest citizens, including the banker J.P. Morgan and his partners, were legally paying nothing in federal income taxes. The solution, endorsed by majorities of both parties in Congress: Make individuals&#8217; income-tax information public, and shame the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}