{"id":63577,"date":"2017-06-22T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63577"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:27:52","slug":"an-idea-whose-time-has-come-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63577","title":{"rendered":"An Idea Whose Time Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois may very well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/2017\/06\/12\/Could-Illinois-Be-First-State-Go-Bankrupt\">go bankrupt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do to?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/kass\/ct-dissolving-illinois-kass-met-20170620-column.html\">time to break up Illinois<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;let&#8217;s finally admit that after decade upon decade of taxing and spending and borrowing, Illinois has finally run out of other people&#8217;s money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_63578\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-21-at-2.48.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63578\" class=\"wp-image-63578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-21-at-2.48.57-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not a bad plan &#8211; although I&#8217;m not sure what Wisconsin did to deserve Chicago. Give Chicago to Massachusetts.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Those &#8220;other people&#8221; include taxpayers who&#8217;ve abandoned the state. And now Illinois faces doomsday.<\/p>\n<p>So as the politicians meet in Springfield this week for another round of posturing and gesturing and blaming, we need a plan.<\/p>\n<p>We just disappear. With no pain. That&#8217;s right. You heard me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole satirical (?) thing is worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois may very well go bankrupt. What do to? It&#8217;s time to break up Illinois: &#8230;let&#8217;s finally admit that after decade upon decade of taxing and spending and borrowing, Illinois has finally run out of other people&#8217;s money. Those &#8220;other people&#8221; include taxpayers who&#8217;ve abandoned the state. And now Illinois faces doomsday. So as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63577","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=63577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63592,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63577\/revisions\/63592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}