{"id":51,"date":"2004-02-22T14:47:03","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T14:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2004-02-22T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2004-02-22T14:47:03","slug":"frontline_tax_me_if_you_can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Frontline: Tax Me if You Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PBS&#8217;s Frontline has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/tax\/interviews\/mcintyre.html\">interview with Robert McIntyre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctj.org\/itep\/\">Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy<\/a> regarding Federal Tax Policy.<br \/>\nOur current tax system is a mess, with many special interests (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000054.html\">ethanol, SUV&#8217;s<\/a>) feeding at the trough.<br \/>\nBusiness Week had an <a href=\"\">interesting article recently<\/a> on the &#8220;fairness&#8221; of the current tax system (including the controversial Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) implications on middle income Americans).<br \/>\nA friend thinks we&#8217;re better off taxing everything at the cash source&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS&#8217;s Frontline has an interview with Robert McIntyre, Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy regarding Federal Tax Policy. Our current tax system is a mess, with many special interests (ethanol, SUV&#8217;s) feeding at the trough. Business Week had an interesting article recently on the &#8220;fairness&#8221; of the current tax system (including 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\/51"}],"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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}