{"id":28329,"date":"2011-09-20T01:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T01:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_ever-increasing_tax_breaks_for_u-s-_families_eclipse_benefits_fo\/"},"modified":"2011-09-20T01:02:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T01:02:56","slug":"wash-_post_ever-increasing_tax_breaks_for_u-s-_families_eclipse_benefits_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28329","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Ever-increasing tax breaks for U.S. families eclipse benefits for special interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All told, federal taxpayers last year received $1.08 trillion in credits, deductions and other perks while paying $1.09 trillion in income taxes, according to government estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 8 percent of those benefits went to corporations. (The write-off for corporate jets equals about .03 percent of the total.) The bulk went to private households, primarily upper-middle-class families that Obama has vowed to protect from new taxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/ever-increasing-tax-breaks-for-us-families-eclipse-benefits-for-special-interests\/2011\/09\/15\/gIQAgdjcaK_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All told, federal taxpayers last year received $1.08 trillion in credits, deductions and other perks while paying $1.09 trillion in income taxes, according to government estimates. Only about 8 percent of those benefits went to corporations. (The write-off for corporate<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28329\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,101,589,149,617,98,616,151,667,618,587,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-marriage-family","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}