{"id":26932,"date":"2012-03-19T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26932"},"modified":"2012-03-19T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:26:17","slug":"everybody-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26932","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Knows&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that capitalism causes inequality between the very rich and the very poor, and that economies with higher degrees of government intervention don&#8217;t have that &#8220;problem&#8221; &#8211; right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/timothy-noah\/101648\/can-domestic-policy-affect-income-distribution\" target=\"_blank\">Arguing that government policy can too affect income distribution<\/a>,\u00a0<em>TNR<\/em>\u2018s Tim Noah writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you<a href=\"http:\/\/stats.oecd.org\/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=INEQUALITY\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0omit government redistribution<\/a>\u00a0from the calculations in the previous paragraph then four countries that previously were\u00a0<em>more<\/em>\u00a0equal in incomes than the U.S.\u2014Portugal, Italy, Israel, and Germany\u2014become\u00a0<em>less<\/em>\u00a0equal than the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wait. You mean that\u00a0<strong>social-democratic, union-heavy, solidaristic Germany has\u00a0<em>worse<\/em>\u00a0<a id=\"KonaLink0\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/03\/18\/noah-buries-lede\/#\"><span style=\"color: green;\">income\u00a0inequality<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, before taxes and transfers, than the cowboy capitalistic U.S., with its large underclass and out-of-control Wall Street greedheads? Don\u2019t tell the narrative. \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Everybody <\/em>just<em> knows it<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that capitalism causes inequality between the very rich and the very poor, and that economies with higher degrees of government intervention don&#8217;t have that &#8220;problem&#8221; &#8211; right? Arguing that government policy can too affect income distribution,\u00a0TNR\u2018s Tim Noah writes: &#8220;If you\u00a0omit government redistribution\u00a0from the calculations in the previous paragraph then four countries that previously were\u00a0more\u00a0equal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26936,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26932\/revisions\/26936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}