{"id":886,"date":"2011-10-28T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=886"},"modified":"2011-10-28T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:32:05","slug":"68-percent-of-millionaires-support-raising-taxes-on-millionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/68-percent-of-millionaires-support-raising-taxes-on-millionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"68 Percent Of Millionaires Support Raising Taxes On Millionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new survey by the Spectrem Group, \u201c68% of millionaires (those with investments of $1 million or more) support raising taxes on those with $1 million or more in income. Fully 61% of those with net worths of $5 million or more support the tax on million-plus earners.\u201d Spectrem\u2019s George Walper told the Wall Street Journal, \u201cwhat this tells us is that there are a number of wealthy folks who said: \u2018Gee, we need to increase taxes to stimulate the economy. No one likes to be taxed more, but the reality is maybe it has to be done.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/10\/27\/355074\/millionaires-support-tax-increase\/\">68 Percent Of Millionaires Support Raising Taxes On Millionaires | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new survey by the Spectrem Group, \u201c68% of millionaires (those with investments of $1 million or more) support raising taxes on those with $1 million or more in income. Fully 61% of those with net worths of $5 million or more support the tax on million-plus earners.\u201d Spectrem\u2019s George Walper told the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[24,70,87,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}