{"id":76351,"date":"2021-01-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76351"},"modified":"2021-01-03T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T14:06:42","slug":"to-think-they-say-progressives-are-economic-illiterates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76351","title":{"rendered":"To Think They Say Progressives Are Economic Illiterates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><em>SCENE:  Mitch BERG is at Fleet Farm, looking for new liners for his old chopper mittens.  Engrossed in his search, he doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE walking around the corner, a quizzical look on hi&#8230;er, he&#8230;er, Avery&#8217;s face. LIBRELLE notices BERG. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:   Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Uh, hi, Avery.  What brings you out to Fleet Farm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Picketing against the Navy and farmers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Of course&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:   It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/01\/01\/bezos-musk-wealth-pandemic\/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR2rFnOViITFYG5-8bn4tzBNbvZZlP2fonXwBMCwL_h7O0SrEmsz59g-W2M\">time to tax the billionaires for all the excess profits they&#8217;ve been earning<\/a> because of the deadly Trump pandemic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  So let me make sure I get this straight&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:   Uh, heteronormative&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Huh?  Oh, for f&#8230;ranklin Delano Roosevelt&#8217;s sake.  OK.  Let me make sure I get this correct:   you want to raise taxes on the e-commerce billionaires who are prospering mightily&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:   &#8230;because the small businesses that were competing with them were destroyed by the government&#8217;s ham-fisted handling of the pandemic, which was imposed by the government that you now want to make the ultimate beneficiary of the government&#8217;s own dork-fingered, utterly catastrophic mis-handling of the response?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>But LIBRELLE has already wandered off, looking for wherever the ships are<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is at Fleet Farm, looking for new liners for his old chopper mittens. Engrossed in his search, he doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE walking around the corner, a quizzical look on hi&#8230;er, he&#8230;er, Avery&#8217;s face. LIBRELLE notices BERG. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh, hi, Avery. What brings you out to Fleet Farm? LIBRELLE: Picketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416,51],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-76351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76351","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=76351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76353,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76351\/revisions\/76353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}