{"id":79621,"date":"2021-10-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79621"},"modified":"2021-09-30T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:17:58","slug":"cut-the-crap-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79621","title":{"rendered":"Cut The Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Some Liberals say $15 an hour minimum wage is too low, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-progressives-say-15-minimum-wage-is-too-low-call-for-26-minimum-wage-instead\">it should be $26 instead<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Cheap bastards.  I agree with William F. Buckley: if raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, why stop at $15 or even $26?  Let&#8217;s make it $100 and we&#8217;ll all be rich. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterdays sardonic quip is today\u2019s proposal and tomorrow\u2019s law.<\/p><p><\/p><p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=76962\">sounds familiar, doesn\u2019t it?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Some Liberals say $15 an hour minimum wage is too low, it should be $26 instead. Cheap bastards. I agree with William F. Buckley: if raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, why stop at $15 or even $26? Let&#8217;s make it $100 and we&#8217;ll all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79621","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=79621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79622,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79621\/revisions\/79622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}