{"id":608,"date":"2008-10-14T19:42:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/10\/14\/why-cant-religion-be-pay-to-play-freakonomics-opinion-new-york-times-blog\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T19:42:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:42:29","slug":"why-cant-religion-be-pay-to-play-freakonomics-opinion-new-york-times-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/14\/why-cant-religion-be-pay-to-play-freakonomics-opinion-new-york-times-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cant Religion Be Pay to Play? &#8211; Freakonomics &#8211; Opinion &#8211; New York Times Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many European countries do it differently. When you move to a town in <strong>Germany, for example, you are asked to state your religion at the city office. Unless you say none, you are then assessed a surtax of 8 percent on your income tax liability, and the funds are paid directly to your religious community.<\/strong><br \/>\nWith a progressive income tax, this means that the rich pay a greater share of their incomes to support religious institutions than the poor do.<br \/>\nNo need to go harassing delinquent members; it\u2019s pay to play.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/14\/why-cant-religion-be-pay-to-play\/\">Why Cant Religion Be Pay to Play? &#8211; Freakonomics &#8211; Opinion &#8211; New York Times Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many European countries do it differently. When you move to a town in Germany, for example, you are asked to state your religion at the city office. Unless you say none, you are then assessed a surtax of 8 percent on your income tax liability, and the funds are paid directly to your religious community. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/14\/why-cant-religion-be-pay-to-play-freakonomics-opinion-new-york-times-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Cant Religion Be Pay to Play? &#8211; Freakonomics &#8211; Opinion &#8211; New York Times Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learned-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}