{"id":53,"date":"2008-10-14T05:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T09:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-10-14T06:45:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T10:45:47","slug":"sharpie-experiment-yields-mixed-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Sharpie experiment yields mixed results."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my solution to the economic crisis:<\/p>\n<p>1. National debt amnesty. All mortgage, credit card, student loan, and payroll loan debt is forgiven immediately. Immediatey implement single-payer national health care by extending medicare to everyone who wants it for free. Instruct GM to run 3 shifts a day in every plant to build plug-in electric cars to be distributed for free to any American who wants one. Build enough free apartments for every American who doesn&#8217;t own a home.<\/p>\n<p>2. Pass an immediate radically graduated income tax to pay for #1. Millionaires pay 90%. Billionaires pay 99.9%. Party&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>3. If rich people have a problem with #2, buy guillotines.<\/p>\n<p>4. Pay for #3 and #1 with new 100% estate taxes for millionaires.<\/p>\n<p>See? Not so hard. Everybody wins. Except rich people. But they&#8217;ve been winning for too long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/final-10-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54\" title=\"final-10-14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/final-10-14-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/final-10-14-171x300.jpg 171w, http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/final-10-14.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my solution to the economic crisis: 1. National debt amnesty. All mortgage, credit card, student loan, and payroll loan debt is forgiven immediately. Immediatey implement single-payer national health care by extending medicare to everyone who wants it for free. Instruct GM to run 3 shifts a day in every plant to build plug-in electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,5],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-debt-amnesty","tag-revolution","tag-semen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garf1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}