{"id":2048,"date":"2010-07-14T06:29:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2010-07-14T06:29:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T06:29:18","slug":"the_irony_in_the_death_of_geor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"The Irony In The Death of George Steinbrenner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/local\/ap\/person-close-to-george-steinbrenner-tells-ap-yankees-owner-dies-at-80-98317444.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;posted an Associated Press article on the death of George Steinbrenner, the colorful owner of the New York Yankees.&nbsp; There were two&nbsp;ironies that stood out for me in the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Steinbrenner died of a heart attack at age 80.&nbsp; He once stated, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have heart attacks, I give them.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Because of the compromises made in the George Bush changes to inheritence tax law, the Steinbrenner family may actually be able to retain ownership of the New York Yankees.&nbsp; That will depend on how Mr. Steinbrenner&#8217;s estate was set up, but in past years, family businesses have&nbsp;had to be&nbsp;sold to pay the estate taxes required by the government.&nbsp; In evaluating estate taxes, taxpayers need to remember that all the money in an estate has already been taxed.&nbsp; I guess&nbsp;estate taxes&nbsp;could also be looked at as taxation without representation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please follow the link to the Washington Examiner article.&nbsp; It highlights an interesting and successful career as the owner of the New York Yankees.&nbsp; The Yankees are the team everyone loves to hate (I live in Massachusetts, so I may be a bit biased on that), but they won.&nbsp; His fueds with Yogi Berra and Billy Martin are legendary.&nbsp; I hope someone in Hollywood will put together an honest biography of this man&#8211;I think it would be fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;posted an Associated Press article on the death of George Steinbrenner, the colorful owner of the New York Yankees.&nbsp; There were two&nbsp;ironies that stood out for me in the article: Mr. Steinbrenner died of a heart attack at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2048\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}