{"id":51656,"date":"2015-02-27T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51656"},"modified":"2015-02-27T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:05:19","slug":"the-cell-phone-neutrality-act-of-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51656","title":{"rendered":"The Cell Phone Neutrality Act Of 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where would we be today if the federal government had enacted a “Cell Phone Neutrality” act in 1987? \u00a0A policy saying that nobody could pay a premium for a snazzy, newfangled, small cell phone until everyone had a big, clunky, expensive one?<\/p>\n

How about a “Car Safety Neutrality” act in 1971, saying that no one could pay a premium for a car with airbags until everyone had a car with airbags?<\/p>\n

What if we passed us a law saying that nobody could pay a few bucks extra for good healthcare until everyone had crappy healthcare\u2026 Oh, wait.<\/p>\n

The United States government: giving the most successful piece of infrastructure of the 21st-century regulation that didn’t work in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Note to liberals\/”progressives”: \u00a0when companies release “premium” products, other companies notice that less-“premium” people want them too – and they find ways to make those “premium” products more affordable. \u00a0And everyone wins.<\/p>\n

Which is why poor people have cell phones, consumer electronics and cars of higher quality than the rich had 30 years ago – but their healthcare, education and mass transit keep getting worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where would we be today if the federal government had enacted a “Cell Phone Neutrality” act in 1987? \u00a0A policy saying that nobody could pay a premium for a snazzy, newfangled, small cell phone until everyone had a big, clunky, expensive one? How about a “Car Safety Neutrality” act in 1971, saying that no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,323,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-leftymoney","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51656","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=51656"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51680,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51656\/revisions\/51680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}