{"id":40398,"date":"2018-01-27T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=40398"},"modified":"2018-01-27T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T08:07:08","slug":"what-if-you-dont-have-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/27\/what-if-you-dont-have-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"What if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have socks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a mail this morning which discussed the now predictable market fundamentalist reaction to Oxfam\u2019s annual wealth report. This was said by my correspondent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This clip is not from this year, but it is my all-time favourite. A Canadian critic of the report, Kevin O\u2019Leary, saying that it is great news that 3.5 billion are in poverty as they are incentivised to work hard and join the 1%. The news anchor is appalled and says \u2018ok they should pull up their socks. Oh wait a minute they are so poor they don\u2019t have socks\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kevin O&#039;Leary says 3.5 billion people living in poverty is &#039;fantastic news&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuqemytQ5QA?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<p>There\u2019s not a lot can be added to that, but the comments make clear the true agenda of most who criticise Oxfam\u2019s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a mail this morning which discussed the now predictable market fundamentalist reaction to Oxfam\u2019s annual wealth report. This was said by my correspondent:<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/27\/what-if-you-dont-have-socks\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40398","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=40398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}