{"id":72699,"date":"2019-11-27T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72699"},"modified":"2019-11-24T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:51:06","slug":"addicted-to-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72699","title":{"rendered":"Addicted To Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Elizabeth Warren\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewarren\/status\/1197366206895992833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1197366206895992833&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2019%2F11%2Ffreeloading-billionaires-please.php\">is tired of freeloading billionaires<\/a>.\u00a0 They should pay their fair share.<br>She&#8217;s got a point.\u00a0 Nobody needs a billion dollars.\u00a0 At some point, you&#8217;ve got enough money, right?\u00a0<br>But what is that point?\u00a0 A billion?\u00a0 A million?\u00a0 A hundred thousand?\u00a0 The underlying motivation is not economics but envy, which judges the rich to be &#8220;anyone who has more than I do.&#8221;<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern progressivism is entirely about catering to humanity&#8217;s basest instincts. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Elizabeth Warren\u00a0is tired of freeloading billionaires.\u00a0 They should pay their fair share.She&#8217;s got a point.\u00a0 Nobody needs a billion dollars.\u00a0 At some point, you&#8217;ve got enough money, right?\u00a0But what is that point?\u00a0 A billion?\u00a0 A million?\u00a0 A hundred thousand?\u00a0 The underlying motivation is not economics but envy, which judges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699","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=72699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72700,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699\/revisions\/72700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}