{"id":77271,"date":"2021-03-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77271"},"modified":"2021-03-23T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:11:53","slug":"fairness-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77271","title":{"rendered":"Fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Strib is trying to shame people into getting the Covid vaccine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/StribOpinion\/status\/1374405659790254091\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s apply this (for sake of argument) &#8220;Logic&#8221; to other patterns of behavior, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>People who are &#8220;child free by choice&#8221; are &#8220;demographic moochers&#8221;.<\/strong>   Everyone else&#8217;s children are going to have to pay the taxes and premiums to support them in their dotage, as well as their own parents.  <\/li><li><strong>People who live bike and transit-centered lifestyles are &#8220;fiscal moochers&#8221;<\/strong>. The taxes that pay for their bike lanes, paths, and transit routes and vehicles are paid, extremely disproportionally, by drivers and their gas taxes. <\/li><li><strong>Those of you who are getting vaccinated<\/strong>, as opposed to getting and recovering from Covid the old-fashioned way, are moochers on multiple levels. <\/li><li><strong>People who net out at no taxes paid in are &#8220;tax moochers&#8221;<\/strong>.  The benefits they disproportionally receive are paid in their entirety by others. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see to this, <em>Strib<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib is trying to shame people into getting the Covid vaccine: Let&#8217;s apply this (for sake of argument) &#8220;Logic&#8221; to other patterns of behavior, shall we? People who are &#8220;child free by choice&#8221; are &#8220;demographic moochers&#8221;. Everyone else&#8217;s children are going to have to pay the taxes and premiums to support them in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77271","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=77271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77274,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77271\/revisions\/77274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}