{"id":22343,"date":"2026-05-22T17:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22343"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:39:42","slug":"how-to-actually-tax-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22343","title":{"rendered":"How To Actually Tax The Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The very wealthiest of Americans are not making money from work. Their wealth grows by capital appreciation, and they pay very little tax on that income. The estate tax is supposed&nbsp;to capture this at death, but it is riddled with&nbsp;loopholes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s extremely unfair and makes the national debt worse.&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=\"How To Actually Tax The Rich\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K06ys5VuGu4?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>The very wealthiest of Americans are not making money from work. Their wealth grows by capital appreciation, and they pay very little tax on that income. The estate tax is supposed to capture this at death, but it is riddled with loopholes. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s extremely unfair and makes the national debt worse. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K06ys5VuGu4<\/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":[1795,1798,127,2243,363,140,141,101],"class_list":["post-22343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-capital-gains","tag-estate-tax","tag-fairness","tag-income-tax","tag-inequality","tag-tax","tag-taxes","tag-wealthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343","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=22343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22345,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions\/22345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}