{"id":2020,"date":"2014-09-16T07:21:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2014-09-16T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:21:35","slug":"understanding-our-current-tax-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Our Current Tax Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MLMG137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2021\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MLMG137.jpg\" alt=\"Understanding Our Current Tax Code\" width=\"560\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MLMG137.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MLMG137-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/09\/MLMG137.jpg&amp;name=Understanding Our Current Tax Code...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>September 14, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two recent inspirations for this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Burger King -- Tim Horton's \" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/burger-king-wants-deal-tim-hortons\" target=\"_blank\">Burger King acquiring Tim Horton&#8217;s<\/a> and incorporating in Canada mostly as a way to weasel out of paying higher US corporate taxes.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Michigan Tax Loophole\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/lansing-news\/index.ssf\/2014\/09\/senate_passes_fix_for_potentia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Legislation to fix loophole<\/a> exposed by a Michigan Supreme Court decision that could possibly cost our state $1 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My solution for cartooning about such dry, unappealing topics? Steal <a title=\"Relativity by M.C. Escher\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Relativity_(M._C._Escher)\" target=\"_blank\">great artwork<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News September 14, 2014 Two recent inspirations for this: Burger King acquiring Tim Horton&#8217;s and incorporating in Canada mostly as a way to weasel out of paying higher US corporate taxes. Legislation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}