{"id":41305,"date":"2018-04-09T15:26:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=41305"},"modified":"2018-04-09T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:26:05","slug":"taxes-do-not-fund-government-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/04\/09\/taxes-do-not-fund-government-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes do not fund government spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like this by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MomentumEconomy\/status\/983058895160664064\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Momentum Economy on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/04\/09\/taxes-do-not-fund-government-spending\/screen-shot-2018-04-09-at-15-23-19\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-09-at-15.23.19-550x420.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-09-at-15.23.19-550x420.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-09-at-15.23.19-393x300.png 393w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-09-at-15.23.19-768x586.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-09-at-15.23.19-524x400.png 524w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-09-at-15.23.19.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is spot on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this by Momentum Economy on Twitter: That is spot on.<\/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-41305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41305","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=41305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}