{"id":4264,"date":"2012-01-17T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:59:39","slug":"i-was-right-about-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4264","title":{"rendered":"I was right about Romney&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;if you were here a few days back, you heard me make the assertion that one of the reasons that ole Mitt wasn&#8217;t releasing his tax returns was that it was going to reveal a dirty little secret of those whose income is derived from investment; not from wages&#8230;.that those who live off securities and investment income only pay about 15% of their income in taxes&#8230;and that is exactly what happened today when ole Mitt&#8217;s campaign revealed just that. Now, I don&#8217;t know about you, but I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right or fair that the 1% can buy tax laws that allow them to avoid paying their fair share while the rest of us pay 25% or more..even in my case, where I am living on savings from my lifetime of work and I pay more than the multi-millionaire Mitt&#8230;c&#8217;mon Mitt&#8230;let&#8217;s see the pretzel you are going to twist yourself into trying to justify these facts&#8230;.I hope you can now understand why the 99% is so pissed off&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;if you were here a few days back, you heard me make the assertion that one of the reasons that ole Mitt wasn&#8217;t releasing his tax returns was that it was going to reveal a dirty little secret of those whose income is derived from investment; not from wages&#8230;.that those who live off securities and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I was right about Romney&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[405,470],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-income-taxes","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}