{"id":24674,"date":"2018-01-23T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24674"},"modified":"2018-01-23T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:43:00","slug":"myth-versus-fact-paying-fair-share-of-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24674\/myth-versus-fact-paying-fair-share-of-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth Versus Fact:  Paying &#8220;Fair Share&#8221; of Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are wealthier Americans paying their &#8220;fair share&#8221; of taxes?<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 Assuming that one measures &#8220;fair share&#8221; as a rough equivalency between income earned and income taxes paid, wealthy Americans pay far more than their fair share, as helpfully illustrated by the Tax Foundation:<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Fair Share?\" src=\"https:\/\/files.taxfoundation.org\/20180117125527\/FF570-1.png\" alt=\"Fair Share?\" width=\"637\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are wealthier Americans paying their &#8220;fair share&#8221; of taxes? No.\u00a0 Assuming that one measures &#8220;fair share&#8221; as a rough equivalency between income earned and income taxes paid, wealthy Americans pay far more than their fair share, as helpfully illustrated by the Tax Foundation: . .<\/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":[3126,4998,4997,71],"class_list":["post-24674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fair-share","tag-myth-versus-fact","tag-tax-foundation","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674","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=24674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24677,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674\/revisions\/24677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}