{"id":49210,"date":"2014-11-19T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49210"},"modified":"2014-11-19T07:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:14:32","slug":"solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49210","title":{"rendered":"Solved!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>East Coast town wants to ban all tobacco products, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2014\/11\/13\/a-massachusetts-towns-tobacco-ban-hearing-ended-abruptly-after-the-crowd-got-rowdy\/\">for the children<\/a><br \/>\n.  Citizens object \u2013 today tobacco, tomorrow what next?<br \/>\nIf St. Paul banned tobacco sales, it would cut into tobacco tax revenues which the State needs to pay for various stadia projects.<br \/>\nWould the DFL object?  \u201cYou must allow your poorest citizens to buy products we know will kill them, so we can pay for the Billion-dollar playground where Million-dollar superstars on drugs play games to sell advertising for beer companies.  We demand it.  For the Wilfs.\u201d<br \/>\nProbably not in so many words.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only is politics the least effective way to allocate resources \u2013 at times, it&#8217;s the most morally repugnant as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: East Coast town wants to ban all tobacco products, for the children . Citizens object \u2013 today tobacco, tomorrow what next? If St. Paul banned tobacco sales, it would cut into tobacco tax revenues which the State needs to pay for various stadia projects. Would the DFL object? \u201cYou [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49210","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=49210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49211,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49210\/revisions\/49211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}