{"id":1712,"date":"2012-04-18T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2012-04-18T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:11:14","slug":"the-richest-1-percent-get-more-pay-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/the-richest-1-percent-get-more-pay-less\/","title":{"rendered":"The Richest 1 Percent Get More, Pay Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The effective federal tax rate of the richest 1 percent of Americans has plummeted even while their incomes have skyrocketed, as the chart below shows. Households in the top 1 percent more than doubled their incomes from an average of more than $800,000 in 1993 to nearly $1.9 million in 2007. During that same period, their effective federal tax rate dropped from 35 percent to 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2012\/04\/income_chart.html\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/one_percent_chart.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2012\/04\/income_chart.html\">The Richest 1 Percent Get More, Pay Less<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effective federal tax rate of the richest 1 percent of Americans has plummeted even while their incomes have skyrocketed, as the chart below shows. Households in the top 1 percent more than doubled their incomes from an average of more than $800,000 in 1993 to nearly $1.9 million in 2007. During that same period,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[521,38,1090,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}