{"id":5386,"date":"2009-09-09T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2009-09-09T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T03:21:00","slug":"washington-is-set-to-spend-30958-per-household-this-year-%e2%80%94-taking-17576-in-taxes-and-borrowing-the-rest-from-our-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5386","title":{"rendered":"Washington is set to spend $30,958 per household this year \u2014 taking $17,576 in taxes and borrowing the rest from our kids."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337385915788478\">Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan<\/a> recently observed that the U.S. is  duplicating many of the policies implemented during the Great Depression. Why?  Mainly because politicians lack &#8220;any basic understanding of what makes  capitalism work.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan recently observed that the U.S. is duplicating many of the policies implemented during the Great Depression. Why? Mainly because politicians lack &#8220;any basic understanding of what makes capitalism work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-pork-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}