{"id":11765,"date":"2010-04-15T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11765"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:40:19","slug":"taxes-are-the-price-we-pay-for-a-civilized-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11765\/taxes-are-the-price-we-pay-for-a-civilized-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reason.TV:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"289\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mR83St0tiBc&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reason.TV:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10579,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10579\/looking-for-reasons-to-be-cheerful-this-christmas-thanks-to-the-free-market-everything-is-better-than-it-was-when-you-were-a-kid\/","url_meta":{"origin":11765,"position":0},"title":"Looking for reasons to be cheerful this Christmas? 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If it gratifies you to weep about how bad things are, compare the America of your youth to the police states of Communist Europe in that same epoch.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6854,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6854\/some-ugly-questions-about-that-15000-home-buyers-tax-credit\/","url_meta":{"origin":11765,"position":1},"title":"Some ugly questions about that $15,000 home-buyers tax credit&#8230;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I let the hoopla over the $15,000 tax credit for home-buyers of all incomes slide last week. 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