{"id":1308,"date":"2011-10-13T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2011-11-13T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T19:04:53","slug":"ah-love-could-you-and-i-with-him-conspire-to-grasp-this-sorry-scheme-of-things-entire-would-not-we-shatter-it-to-bits%e2%80%94and-then-re-mold-it-nearer-to-the-hearts-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits\u2014and then Re-mold it nearer to the Heart&#8217;s Desire!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Althouse posts a righteous takedown of Herman Cain and his so-called 9-9-9 tax plan <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/point-in-debate-when-my-doubts-about.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There has never been a saner and simpler proposal for tax reform than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperativeindividualism.org\/george-henry_single-tax-what-it-is-1890.html\">&#8220;single tax&#8221;<\/a> on the unimproved value of land proposed by Henry George. The honest progressive and the honest capitalist alike would find in it, if they looked, a facilitator of their respective instincts. Most importantly, in stark contrast to the abomination that is &#8220;our&#8221; politician-created tax &#8220;code,&#8221; the &#8220;single tax&#8221; has its sure foundation in Justice, as illuminated by, among others, <a href=\"http:\/\/geolib.com\/essays\/paine.tom\/agjst.html\">Thomas Paine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Combine the &#8220;single tax&#8221; with Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.let.rug.nl\/usa\/P\/tj3\/writings\/brf\/jefl241.htm\">&#8220;ward system&#8221;<\/a> and you have my political philosophy in a nutshell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Althouse posts a righteous takedown of Herman Cain and his so-called 9-9-9 tax plan here. There has never been a saner and simpler proposal for tax reform than the &#8220;single tax&#8221; on the unimproved value of land proposed by Henry George. The honest progressive and the honest capitalist alike would find in it, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,113,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry-george","category-thomas-jefferson","category-thomas-paine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}