{"id":80624,"date":"2022-01-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80624"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:55:21","slug":"laboratory-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80624","title":{"rendered":"Laboratory Of Democracy"},"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>One of the brilliant concepts of federalism as envisioned by the Founders, was the notion that various states could experiment with local solutions to local problems. The federal government would get involved only when necessary to mediate between the states.<br><br>People are still taking off their shoes and belts to go through the scanner at the airport.  Why?  Is there seriously a grave risk to air safety posed by shoe bombers and belt buckle assailants? Why not try an experiment?<br><br>Airline A will revert back to the security measures in effect in 2000.  Passengers must sign a security waiver to fly, but their tickets are $10 cheaper and they bypass the security line so they can arrive at the airport 10 minutes before boarding instead of 2-3 hours early.<br><br>How many people will choose Airline A?  How many air disasters will Airline A suffer?  How long before Airlines B, C, D all clamor to be part of the plan?<br><br>Joe Doakes<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a trick question.<\/p><p><\/p><p>All questions involving the expansion of liberty wind up being trick questions, these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como park emails: One of the brilliant concepts of federalism as envisioned by the Founders, was the notion that various states could experiment with local solutions to local problems. The federal government would get involved only when necessary to mediate between the states. People are still taking off their shoes and belts [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624","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=80624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80625,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624\/revisions\/80625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}