{"id":160,"date":"2010-09-21T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgttodd.wordpress.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:15:45","slug":"tax-hikes-on-the-rich-hit-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/tax-hikes-on-the-rich-hit-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax hikes on “the rich” hit everyone."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Money<\/a>Perfect example cited at a second or third remove over on the Whatever<\/a>. Read it.<\/p>\n

It certainly is a little lame to complain about not having enough money when you’re making 250K and have to let your nanny, gardener and housecleaner go because of a tax hike.\u00a0I recommend not doing that except among other similarly afflicted socialites.\u00a0Here’s the world’s smallest violin.<\/p>\n

However, ask yourself where the sympathy is for the nanny, gardener, and house cleaner. \u00a0They’re being let go as a direct result of that tax hike. The same taxes that “stick it to the man” also stick it to the everyday joe the man employs. This is true whether it’s directly as a gardener, nanny or housecleaner to said man or indirectly as the pool guy whose services are no longer required, or even the maid at the one hotel the man doesn’t go to when he shortens his vacation this year due to financial concerns.<\/p>\n

Corporations don’t let VPs go when they get hit with a big tax hike, they lay off guys and gals like me.<\/p>\n

To Mr. Scalzi’s point, Henderson is still doing just fine.\u00a0It’s those domestic servants out looking for work now, not Henderson. But, I suppose that’s alright as long as the politicians can crow about ‘taxing the rich’ and everybody thinks that’s smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perfect example cited at a second or third remove over on the Whatever. Read it. It certainly is a little lame to complain about not having enough money when you’re making 250K and have to let your nanny, gardener and housecleaner go because of a tax hike.\u00a0I recommend not doing that except among other similarly … Continue reading Tax hikes on “the rich” hit everyone.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-politics","category-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}