{"id":1068438,"date":"2023-06-06T05:30:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=285004"},"modified":"2023-06-06T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:30:26","slug":"another-look-at-the-financial-transactions-tax-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/06\/another-look-at-the-financial-transactions-tax-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debt ceiling crisis has again brought into focus the perennial gap between what the government spends and what it accumulates in taxes, and the virtual impossibility of closing that gap by increasing taxes or negotiating cuts in the budget. In a 2023 book titled\u00a0A Tale of Two Economies: A New Financial Operating System for  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/06\/another-look-at-the-financial-transactions-tax\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/06\/another-look-at-the-financial-transactions-tax\/\">Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/06\/another-look-at-the-financial-transactions-tax\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debt ceiling crisis has again brought into focus the perennial gap between what the government spends and what it accumulates in taxes, and the virtual impossibility of closing that gap by increasing taxes or negotiating cuts in the budget. In a 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068446,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068438\/revisions\/1068446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}