{"id":41352,"date":"2014-01-31T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41352"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:58:23","slug":"41352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41352","title":{"rendered":"“…And I’m Here To Help”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

When I studied abroad in college, the best deal was to ride a school bus to Winnipeg then fly to Amsterdam and on to Paris.\u00a0 The trip took 24 hours and cost $460 in 1979 dollars which is worth $1,500 in 2014 dollars.\u00a0 Canadian air fares were cheaper than American because our government regulated air carrier routes, creating mini-monopolies that kept prices high.<\/p>\n

Today, I can fly Minneapolis to Paris direct in 9 hours for $1,200.<\/p>\n

The one thing that Jimmy Carter did right was de-regulated airlines and made air fare affordable for ordinary Americans.<\/p>\n

Of course, letting airlines decide which routes are profitable means some people lose air service.\u00a0 Liberals\u00a0are still arguing<\/a>\u00a0we ought to start subsidizing small airports again so people don\u2019t have to drive to hub terminals to catch a flight.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about fairness, you see, and equality.\u00a0 People who live in Minneapolis can jump right on the airplane.\u00a0 People from Thief River Falls, Granite Falls or Cannon Falls must drive to the Minneapolis hub airport.<\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s not fair.\u00a0 But it\u2019s cheap.\u00a0 And that covers a multitude of other sins.<\/p>\n

Deregulation worked for airlines.\u00a0 Wonder how it\u2019d work for other industries such as, say, health insurance?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly Joe hates womyn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When I studied abroad in college, the best deal was to ride a school bus to Winnipeg then fly to Amsterdam and on to Paris.\u00a0 The trip took 24 hours and cost $460 in 1979 dollars which is worth $1,500 in 2014 dollars.\u00a0 Canadian air fares were cheaper than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41447,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41352\/revisions\/41447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}