{"id":4658,"date":"2009-04-27T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2009-04-27T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:02:06","slug":"well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4658","title":{"rendered":"Well Spent"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the pro-Tax-crowd’s more corrosively stupid slanders of the Tea Party movement was the slur that we “want to destroy government” and want to “abolish all taxes”.<\/p>\n

There are no doubt a few of those outliers out there.\u00a0 But for the most part, we simply advocate limiting government as much as possible to the areas where it’s supposed to be<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And one of those areas is public safety, in all of its various forms.\u00a0 The military; police; fire departments; and of course, with swine flu in the news, public health.<\/p>\n

Minnesota, and Ramsey County, have good, solid public health departments; I know very few even among the most libertarian among us who begrudge a dime of their (fairly modest) budgets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RamCo Public Health is getting out the Swine Flu info<\/a>. It’s well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the pro-Tax-crowd’s more corrosively stupid slanders of the Tea Party movement was the slur that we “want to destroy government” and want to “abolish all taxes”. There are no doubt a few of those outliers out there.\u00a0 But for the most part, we simply advocate limiting government as much as possible to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","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=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}