{"id":4251,"date":"2009-02-20T07:22:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:23:57","slug":"i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"I, Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/askfactcheck\/do_40_percent_of_americans_pay_no.html\">40% of Americans <\/a>who will pay no income tax under the Obama &#8220;stimulus&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From:\u00a0 The other 60% and I<\/p>\n<p>Re: The Future<\/p>\n<p>Dear Deadbeats:<\/p>\n<p>Well, you went and did it.\u00a0 You voted yourself a President and Congress who promise to give you goodies and make someone else pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>All the rest of the Someone Elses and I need to ask you, though; what if we just decide to quit?\u00a0 Quit working, quit ponying up and paying the freight for ourselves and, with all due respect, your freeloading asses?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;ll happen to your entitlement to our tax money?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, &#8220;But you <em>have <\/em>to keep working and paying!\u00a0 It&#8217;s not\u00a0 your money, it&#8217;s taxes&#8221; is not an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The 40% of Americans who will pay no income tax under the Obama &#8220;stimulus&#8221; From:\u00a0 The other 60% and I Re: The Future Dear Deadbeats: Well, you went and did it.\u00a0 You voted yourself a President and Congress who promise to give you goodies and make someone else pay for it. All the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,69],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","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=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38806,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/38806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}