{"id":35276,"date":"2013-03-20T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35276"},"modified":"2013-03-19T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:19:25","slug":"when-in-nicosia-do-as-the-nicosians-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35276","title":{"rendered":"When In Nicosia, Do As The Nicosians Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The European Union told Cyprus it had to raise 6 billion Euros in order to get 4 billion more from the EU to bail out its banks. Cyprus waited until banks closed last Friday to announce a \u201cone-time\u201d tax on bank accounts. Accounts with less than 100,000 Euros would pay 6.75%; larger accounts would pay 9.9%, all automatically deducted and sent to Berlin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=28476\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28476\" title=\"DoingFine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DoingFine.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DoingFine.gif 540w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DoingFine-300x232.gif 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DoingFine-386x300.gif 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea is . . . unpopular. Cypriot banks are still closed to avoid massive runs of people trying to grab their money before the government does.<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me, this isn\u2019t a new concept. Didn\u2019t Larry Pogemiller propose a shift away from income taxes toward net worth taxes about six years ago, in a bid to shift the burden of paying for a Nicer Minnesota away from \u201cworking families\u201d over to \u201cwealthy retirees?\u201d I don\u2019t remember the automatic deduction feature in his plan, but the basic idea is the same. In fact, it\u2019s older than that. When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied: \u201cBecause that\u2019s where the money is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To heck with being an outlaw, Willie should have been a government bureaucrat! He was just ahead of his time, is all.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, that could never happen here. The President might have the Constitutional power to drop Hellfire missiles on unsuspecting Americans, but he can\u2019t just take money out of their bank accounts. He can\u2019t, right? Right?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be silly.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re &#8220;doing fine&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The European Union told Cyprus it had to raise 6 billion Euros in order to get 4 billion more from the EU to bail out its banks. Cyprus waited until banks closed last Friday to announce a \u201cone-time\u201d tax on bank accounts. Accounts with less than 100,000 Euros would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,69,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-socialism","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276","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=35276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35277,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276\/revisions\/35277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}