{"id":16717,"date":"2012-09-18T22:49:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2012-09-18T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:49:58","slug":"parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16717","title":{"rendered":"Parasite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If not paying income tax makes one a <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/mary-matalin-thanks-to-romney-we-can-single?ref=fpblg\">parasite<\/a>, what do you call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/law-professor-says-one-of-romneys-tax-avoidance-schemes-was-illegal-2012-8\">someone who tries<\/a> to make his own income tax rate as low as possible? A parasite in-training? A parasite in the larval form? An egg, hoping to someday make it to full parasitic moocher-hood? <\/p>\n<p>And what if that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/general-electric-paid-federal-taxes-2010\/story?id=13224558\">someone<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rickungar\/2012\/09\/01\/bain-capital-under-investigation-for-tax-avoidance-romney-denies-any-benefit\/\">corporation<\/a>? Still a parasite?<\/p>\n<p>And how does someone who is actively trying (and may employ legions of accountants in the effort) <strike><strong>to be a parasite<\/strong><\/strike> to not pay any taxes complain about people who simply don't earn enough to owe any taxes? <\/p>\n<p>Gah. <\/p>\n<p>Nick Drake, take me away...<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ABAi5jWvxbU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If not paying income tax makes one a parasite, what do you call someone who tries to make his own income tax rate as low as possible? A parasite in-training? A parasite in the larval form? An egg, hoping to someday make it to full parasitic moocher-hood? And what if that someone is a corporation? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717","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=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}