{"id":215,"date":"2007-02-23T22:34:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T05:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2008-11-27T19:27:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T02:27:48","slug":"eat-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Eat the Rich (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not surprised?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . 18 families worth a total of $185.5 billion have financed and coordinated a 10-year effort to repeal the estate tax, a move that would collectively net them a windfall of $71.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The report profiles the families and their businesses, which include the families behind Wal-Mart, Gallo wine, Campbell&#8217;s soup, and Mars Inc., maker of M&amp;Ms. Collectively, the list includes the first- and third-largest privately held companies in the United States, the richest family in Alabama and the world&#8217;s largest retailer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because, you know, you just can&#8217;t have too many Paris Hiltons.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.org\/pressroom\/release.cfm?ID=2182\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-949\" title=\"scrooge\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/scrooge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>Come the revolution, baby, we&#8217;re gonna change some shit around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not surprised? . . . 18 families worth a total of $185.5 billion have financed and coordinated a 10-year effort to repeal the estate tax, a move that would collectively net them a windfall of $71.6 billion. The report profiles the families and their businesses, which include the families behind Wal-Mart, Gallo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}