{"id":40894,"date":"2019-02-01T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40894"},"modified":"2019-02-01T07:16:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:16:18","slug":"at-ammo-com-how-the-u-s-federal-income-tax-became-d-c-s-favorite-political-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/01\/at-ammo-com-how-the-u-s-federal-income-tax-became-d-c-s-favorite-political-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"At Ammo.com: How the U.S. Federal Income Tax Became D.C.&#8217;s Favorite Political Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My home Internet goes away sometime this weekend. I felt a wave of liberation when I finally achieved that (after three tries but without typical Comcast arm wrestling). No doubt I&#8217;ll have many other reactions later as the often inconvenient realities set in.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;m weaning myself from &#8220;news&#8221; and poly-ticks.<\/p>\n<p>But Alex at Ammo.com sent a link to another of their great in-depth pieces on the history of tyranny in the U.S.: <a href=\"https:\/\/ammo.com\/articles\/us-federal-income-tax-guide-16th-amendment-history\" target=\"_blank\">The 16th Amendment: How the U.S. Federal Income Tax Became D.C.&#8217;s Favorite Political Weapon.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well worth a read, as always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My home Internet goes away sometime this weekend. I felt a wave of liberation when I finally achieved that (after three tries but without typical Comcast arm wrestling). No doubt I&#8217;ll have many other reactions later as the often inconvenient realities set in. In the meantime I&#8217;m weaning myself from &#8220;news&#8221; and poly-ticks. But Alex at Ammo.com sent a link to another of their great in-depth pieces on the history of tyranny in the U.S.: The 16th Amendment: How the U.S. Federal Income Tax Became D.C.&#8217;s Favorite Political Weapon.&#8221; Well worth a read, as always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40895,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions\/40895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}