{"id":15187,"date":"2009-11-02T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15187"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:58:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:58:39","slug":"the-rich-get-all-the-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/02\/the-rich-get-all-the-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rich Get All The Breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/29\/your-money\/taxes\/29TAX.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> released this table illustrating who benefited the most from the Bush tax cuts.\u00a0 As you will see, people in the top 1% of income, making more than $545,845 a year benefited, <em>by leaps and bounds<\/em>, more than anyone else. And their share of the tax cut?\u00a0 Almost a quarter went to the top 1%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15186\" title=\"00_Tax_cut\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/11\/00_Tax_cut.jpg\" alt=\"00_Tax_cut\" width=\"608\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also see our post on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/19\/social-class-and-the-tax-burden\/\" target=\"_self\">social class and the tax burden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/sell-by-date-for-tax-breaks.html\" target=\"_blank\">MontClair SocioBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the New York Times released this table illustrating who benefited the most from the Bush tax cuts.\u00a0 As you will see, people in the top 1% of income, making more than $545,845 a year benefited, by leaps and bounds, more than anyone else. And their share of the tax cut?\u00a0 Almost a quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36,304],"class_list":["post-15187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-the-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51207,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187\/revisions\/51207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}