{"id":7043,"date":"2012-03-09T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2012-03-09T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:10:55","slug":"liberty-is-contingent-upon-cultural-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/liberty-is-contingent-upon-cultural-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty is contingent upon cultural capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/09\/world\/europe\/italy-tax-evasion.html?pagewanted=all\">Tax Cheats Become Italy\u2019s Public Enemy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to banning cash transactions, the effort has included an ad campaign comparing tax evaders to parasites. There have been headline-grabbing controls focusing on stores, hotels and restaurants in affluent Italian cities.<b> For good measure, tax officials have also been stopping luxury cars and asking drivers to show their licenses, along with their most recent tax returns.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sort of behavior on the part of public officials is not going to happen in the USA. We have &#8220;rights.&#8221; But, I think those rights can only exist because the USA has enough social capital that the government receives a sufficient amount of taxes from an honest citizenry. Rights are not abstractions or axioms, but derive from concrete realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax Cheats Become Italy\u2019s Public Enemy: In addition to banning cash transactions, the effort has included an ad campaign comparing tax evaders to parasites. There have been headline-grabbing controls focusing on stores, hotels and restaurants in affluent Italian cities. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/liberty-is-contingent-upon-cultural-capital\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7044,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions\/7044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}