{"id":10043,"date":"2010-08-23T17:39:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10043"},"modified":"2010-08-23T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T21:39:38","slug":"the-rich-theyre-just-better-than-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10043","title":{"rendered":"The rich, they're just better than you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to make the case for keeping taxes on the rich as low as possible, <a href='http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/agenda\/244452\/will-united-states-become-old-country-reihan-salam'>Reihan Salam reminds us<\/a> who's really important:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. is a country rich in amenities that Dubai, Doha, and Singapore can't really match. So <b>many of the ultrarich<\/b> will pay a premium to live here, just as wealthy individuals pay a premium to live in California or Paris. But how big a premium will they pay? And how long will our edge in amenities last? <\/p>\n<p>It's useful to assume that the answer is not that big and not that long. Because if we're wrong, a trickle of adventure-seeking emigrants could become a cascade of our <b>best and brightest<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ultrarich = best and brightest. \"Conservatism\" in a nutshell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to make the case for keeping taxes on the rich as low as possible, Reihan Salam reminds us who's really important: The U.S. is a country rich in amenities that Dubai, Doha, and Singapore can't really match. So many of the ultrarich will pay a premium to live here, just as wealthy individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}