{"id":133857,"date":"2021-12-23T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=133857"},"modified":"2021-12-23T10:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:46:19","slug":"a-bit-of-churchillian-wisdom-on-taxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=133857","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Churchillian Wisdom on Taxation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winston_Churchill\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11989\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/800px-Churchill_queen_Elizabeth_1953.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Churchill with\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Queen Elizabeth II\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queen_Elizabeth_II\">Queen Elizabeth\u00a0II<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Charles, Prince of Wales\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales\">Prince Charles<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Anne, Princess Royal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne,_Princess_Royal\">Princess Anne<\/a>, 10 February 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.&#8221; Churchill with\u00a0Queen Elizabeth\u00a0II,\u00a0Prince Charles\u00a0and\u00a0Princess Anne, 10 February 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/800px-Churchill_queen_Elizabeth_1953.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133859,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133857\/revisions\/133859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}