{"id":156221,"date":"2018-11-04T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?page_id=156221"},"modified":"2022-10-23T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T15:55:21","slug":"the-state","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/publications\/the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The State"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/1930s\/depth-articles\/holes-safety-net\/state\/world-socialists-comment-war\/socialist-standard-2010s-2010-no-1272-august-2010-37\/\" hreflang=\"en-GB\">Holes in the &#8216;Safety Net&#8217;<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>The welfare state is in some difficulty across the western world<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/1930s\/depth-articles\/state\/taxation-myth\/yes-inaction-not-option\/education-depth-articles-state-taxation-myth\/\" hreflang=\"en-GB\">The Taxation Myth<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>When capitalist political parties are in disagreement, the issue of taxation often looms large. Should income tax be reduced or increased? What should be done about local government taxation? Why all the fuss about taxation\u2014is it so important?<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/1930s\/depth-articles\/state\/what-causes-world-poverty\/yugoslav-wars-myths-realities\/education-depth-articles-state-what-causes-world-poverty\/\" hreflang=\"en-GB\">What Causes World Poverty?<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>The World Development Organisation claims that the policies of governments and multinational businesses cause poverty. Are they right?<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/1930s\/cuba-no-workers-paradise\/depth-articles\/state\/whither-iraq\/education-depth-articles-state-cuba-no-workers-paradise\/\" hreflang=\"en-GB\">Cuba: No Workers Paradise<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/publications\/in-depth-articles\/\">\u2b9c  In depth articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holes in the &#8216;Safety Net&#8217; The welfare state is in some difficulty across the western world The Taxation Myth When capitalist political parties are in disagreement, the issue of taxation often looms large. Should income tax be reduced or increased? What should be done about local government taxation? Why all the fuss about taxation\u2014is it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/publications\/the-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The State&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2282,"featured_media":0,"parent":4915,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234841,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156221\/revisions\/234841"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}