{"id":23599,"date":"2016-03-09T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23599"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:41:08","slug":"quotable-thomas-sowell-on-income-inequality-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23599\/quotable-thomas-sowell-on-income-inequality-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotable:  Thomas Sowell on Income Inequality Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Thomas Sowell, in his latest commentary entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/sowell030816.php3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Random Thoughts&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here is a trick question: \u00a0What percentage of American households have incomes in the top 10 percent? \u00a0Answer: \u00a051 percent of American households are in the top 10 percent at some point in the course of a lifetime &#8211; usually in their older years. \u00a0Those who want us to envy and resent the top 10 percent are urging half of us to envy and resent ourselves.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Thomas Sowell, in his latest commentary entitled &#8220;Random Thoughts&#8221;: Here is a trick question: \u00a0What percentage of American households have incomes in the top 10 percent? \u00a0Answer: \u00a051 percent of American households are in the top 10 percent at some point in the course of a lifetime &#8211; usually in their older years. \u00a0Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2099,1720],"class_list":["post-23599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-income-inequality","tag-thomas-sowell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23600,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions\/23600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}