{"id":1423,"date":"2019-02-24T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2019-02-26T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:59:29","slug":"taxes-taxes-taxes-the-rest-is-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/24\/taxes-taxes-taxes-the-rest-is-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes, Taxes, Taxes, . . . the rest is bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Davos.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Davos.jpg 590w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Davos-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 85vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI want to focus on the young Dutch historian, Rutger Bregman, who created media attention at the 2019 Davos World Economic Forum by focusing on the problem that the rich are allowed to avoid paying a \nfair share of taxes.  His additional position is that there should be a universal Basic Income. \n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<p>\nIn the first video below is the discussion at Davos in which Bregman made his points. \n<p>\nIn the second video, The Young Turks (TYT) comment on the exchange between Tucker Carlson and Rutger Bregman.  Carlson invited Bregman to talk about the phenomenon of tax avoidance . . . but it never got there. Instead, Bregman focused on the problem of why such an issue as tax avoidance is not discussed by the major media, and his own answer was it is because billionaires pay millionaires &#8212; like Tucker Carlson &#8212; not to discuss it. At that point Carlson lost his composure with an emotive reaction of &#8220;go fuck yourself!&#8221;\n<p>\nThe third video is the full exchange between Carlson and Bregman.<p>\n&nbsp;\n<p>\nVideo 1:\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r5LtFnmPruU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Video 2:<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OmtqQrp4m0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Video 3:<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6_nFI2Zb7qE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nIn the following clip, Noam Chomsky made the same charge against an interviewer as did Bregman against Carlson.\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1nBx-37c3c8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to focus on the young Dutch historian, Rutger Bregman, who created media attention at the 2019 Davos World Economic Forum by focusing on the problem that the rich are allowed to avoid paying a fair share of taxes. His additional position is that there should be a universal Basic Income. &nbsp; In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/24\/taxes-taxes-taxes-the-rest-is-bullshit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taxes, Taxes, Taxes, . . . the rest is bullshit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-detection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}