{"id":29010,"date":"2015-05-13T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T06:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=29010"},"modified":"2015-05-13T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T06:11:11","slug":"the-five-reasons-why-we-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/05\/13\/the-five-reasons-why-we-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"The five reasons why we tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am getting a lot of comments suggesting that tax is just about raising revenue.<\/p>\n<p>This is something I fundamentally disagree with, and have done so for some time, so this 2011 video seems worth sharing again:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reasons to Tax\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BVKxZWTw8qg?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am getting a lot of comments suggesting that tax is just about raising revenue. This is something I fundamentally disagree with, and have done<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/05\/13\/the-five-reasons-why-we-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-tax-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}