{"id":40825,"date":"2013-10-31T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/palm_beach_post_frank_cerabino-losing_bet_florida_lottery_a_tax_on_the_poo\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:00:41","slug":"palm_beach_post_frank_cerabino-losing_bet_florida_lottery_a_tax_on_the_poo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40825","title":{"rendered":"(Palm Beach Post) Frank Cerabino&#8211;Losing bet: Florida Lottery a tax on the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state lottery functions as a voluntary tax with a disproportionate burden on the poor.<\/p>\n<p>This is especially onerous in Florida, which is one of the most regressive tax states in the nation, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Because Florida relies on raising money from sales tax and excise taxes on cigarettes, alcohol and gasoline instead of a progressive income tax, the poorest 20 percent of the population pay about 13.5 percent of their income in taxes, while the middle 60 percent pay 7.8 percent and the top 1 percent pay 2.6 percent, the institute found in a 2009 study.<\/p>\n<p>The lottery makes that regressive tax burden even worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131030\/PC1001\/131039986\/1021\/losing-bet-florida-lottery-a-tax-on-the-poor\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state lottery functions as a voluntary tax with a disproportionate burden on the poor. This is especially onerous in Florida, which is one of the most regressive tax states in the nation, according to the Institute on Taxation and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40825\">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":[39,40,149,168,87,151,88,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825","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=40825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}