{"id":30383,"date":"2012-09-27T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/romney-is-ruining-it-for-the-rich.html"},"modified":"2012-09-27T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:15:58","slug":"romney-is-ruining-it-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/romney-is-ruining-it-for-the-rich.html","title":{"rendered":"Romney is ruining it for the rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; by showing how a whole bunch of dubious tax loopholes work. Curses!<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/09\/quote-day-romney-ruining-things-all-other-rich-guys'>Quote of the Day: Romney Is Ruining Things For All the Other Rich Guys<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe person setting up the trust, like Romney, contributes assets such as an interest in a fund or shares in a company. If he makes that contribution before those assets appreciate \u2014 particularly when &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/3rvHfZ6eLwB' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; by showing how a whole bunch of dubious tax loopholes work. Curses! Embedded Link Quote of the Day: Romney Is Ruining Things For All the Other Rich Guys The person setting up the trust, like Romney, contributes assets such as an interest in a fund or shares in a company. If he makes that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/romney-is-ruining-it-for-the-rich.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romney is ruining it for the rich&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28923,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/11\/romneyryan.html","url_meta":{"origin":30383,"position":0},"title":"Romney\/Ryan","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 11-Aug-12 8:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"I have to admit, I'm surprised. 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