{"id":22278,"date":"2026-05-12T03:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22278"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:12:13","slug":"why-is-it-so-hard-to-tax-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22278","title":{"rendered":"Why Is It So Hard To Tax Billionaires?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Is It So Hard To Tax Billionaires?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a hell of a lot of games and loopholes. And, Congress won&#8217;t do shit about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Is It So Hard To Tax Billionaires?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E308lijSQv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is It So Hard To Tax Billionaires?<\/p>\n<p>There are a hell of a lot of games and loopholes. And, Congress won&#8217;t do shit about it. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E308lijSQv0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,363,584,411,100,140,1639,142,2284,1025,1772,2230,733,141,101],"class_list":["post-22278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-inequality","tag-loophole","tag-policy","tag-rich","tag-tax","tag-tax-avoidance","tag-tax-break","tag-tax-cheat","tag-tax-code","tag-tax-credit","tag-tax-cuts","tag-tax-expenditure","tag-taxes","tag-wealthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22279,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278\/revisions\/22279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}