{"id":4613,"date":"2012-05-31T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2012-05-31T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T00:19:09","slug":"does-government-have-a-role-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4613","title":{"rendered":"Does government have a role in the 21st century?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/chrystia-freeland\/2012\/05\/31\/does-government-have-a-role-in-the-21st-century\/\">Chrystia Freeland:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The big economic question in much of the world today is usually framed as the fight between advocates of austerity and advocates of growth. But another way to view the debate is as a contest between those who think that 21st-century government can be effective and those who don\u2019t.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, some of America\u2019s most outspoken capitalists have begun to fight the \u201cBuffett Rule,\u201d which would set a minimum tax level for millionaires, and other calls to raise taxes for those at the very top, with the argument that money is best left in the bank accounts of the superrich because they are more effective at using it than the state is.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m a job creator. I\u2019m one of the guys who can help us out. I\u2019m a Silicon Valley guy who can invent and create,\u201d T.J. Rodgers, chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor, told me. \u201cIf you tax me more, I will either give less to charity or I will fund venture companies less, or I will sell the stock in my own company or other companies I own, like Intel and Google. I will do one of those three things to return the money to the government.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrystia Freeland: The big economic question in much of the world today is usually framed as the fight between advocates of austerity and advocates of growth. But another way to view the debate is as a contest between those who think that 21st-century government can be effective and those who don\u2019t. Indeed, some of America\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613"}],"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=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}