{"id":58,"date":"2014-02-22T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T08:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2014-02-22T01:15:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T09:15:01","slug":"wanted-your-taxes-with-zero-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Wanted&#8230; Your Taxes, with Zero Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe that laws are written to protect\u00a0and\u00a0help\u00a0us all in return for the taxes we pay to secure the needs of our future? What sort of stake in commodities markets, like oil or metal, do you own personally? \u00a0How many laws, written by\u00a0the people you elect, benefit you over the shareholders who legally bribe them through lobbyists to directly profit a very few extremely wealthy shareholders? Matt Taibbi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-20140212\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> the very distressing state of fallout that is occurring due to a many decades long war on banking and financial regulation by corporate interests whose only bottom line is their profit at any cost. What you may not have been following is something that is wastefully costing us our economic and ecological future.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-20140212\" target=\"_blank\">read&#8230;<\/a>, then ask yourself if you&#8217;re benefiting. Then see how you can make a change.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not sure this is happening, then reading a recent report done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/02\/13\/data-ceo-pay_n_4780937.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post about who is benefiting<\/a> from bad policy and bad legislation, might be of interest. It is time for you to take a stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe that laws are written to protect\u00a0and\u00a0help\u00a0us all in return for the taxes we pay to secure the needs of our future? What sort of stake in commodities markets, like oil or metal, do you own personally? \u00a0How many laws, written by\u00a0the people you elect, benefit you over the shareholders who legally bribe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-policy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econofesto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}