{"id":71022,"date":"2019-04-10T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71022"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:29:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:29:07","slug":"give-away-make-up-for-it-with-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71022","title":{"rendered":"Give Away.  Make Up For It With Volume."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s getting harder for Democrat candidates to come up with more free stuff than the next guy.\u00a0 How can we bribe voters without free stuff? <br>Amy Klobuchar wants to give free savings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/coons-klobuchar-pitch-retirement-savings-mandate\">accounts\/pension plans,<\/a> funded by employers and off-set by tax credits, handled by the Senate&#8217;s hand-picked fund managers to invest in stocks and bonds.<br>But she hasn&#8217;t fully considered why employees aren&#8217;t saving money.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t make enough?\u00a0 Everybody can always set aside a tiny fraction of their income.\u00a0 The trick is finding the motivation to do it.\u00a0 Churches solicit tithes with promises of salvation.\u00a0 Amy wants tax credits with promises of mutual funds.\u00a0 Not nearly as enticing.\u00a0 I&#8217;d rather buy the extra fru-fru coffee.\u00a0 <br>When somebody else subsidizes the consequences of your decisions to insulate you from harm, you have less incentive to make good choices.\u00a0 In some circles, that&#8217;s known as moral hazard.\u00a0 In Amy&#8217;s, it&#8217;s a campaign promise.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The more dependent they make society on &#8220;the authorities&#8221; for basic life decisions, the more control they have. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting harder for Democrat candidates to come up with more free stuff than the next guy.\u00a0 How can we bribe voters without free stuff? Amy Klobuchar wants to give free savings\u00a0accounts\/pension plans, funded by employers and off-set by tax credits, handled by the Senate&#8217;s hand-picked fund managers to invest in stocks and bonds.But she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,155],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-71022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mn-congressional","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71022","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=71022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71023,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71022\/revisions\/71023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}