{"id":49487,"date":"2013-12-24T00:23:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T07:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=49487"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T03:15:31","slug":"caesar-steps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/12\/caesar-steps-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Caesar Steps in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-12-17\/accidental-tax-break-saves-wealthiest-americans-100-billion.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to save his dear good friend Mammon<\/a>.\u00a0 I was *so* worried that the uber-wealthiest, fresh from getting our bailout money,\u00a0might have to contribute to the common good, but thanks to Caesar they are spared the hundred billion they might have owed.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll bet the hungry homeless guy <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaljournal.com\/article\/265402\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">doing a 15 year stay in prison for taking a hundred dollars and then returning it<\/a> is relieved at this wonderful act of mercy from a just and wise state that, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread\u2013unless the bread is in the form of subsidies and tax breaks.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026to save his dear good friend Mammon.\u00a0 I was *so* worried that the uber-wealthiest, fresh from getting our bailout money,\u00a0might have to contribute to the common good, but thanks to Caesar they are spared the hundred billion they might have owed. 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