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Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n

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Why is there a rebate for electric bicycles, what’s wrong with the old-fashioned Schwinn bicycle?<\/div>\n
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Why do teacher pensions need a boost from the state, why aren’t they paid from teacher contributions?<\/div>\n
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Why do any illegal aliens get free healthcare whether they are children or not? Why do we want to encourage them to stay instead of encouraging them to leave?<\/div>\n
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Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The terms “perverse incentives” and “unintended consequences” is always the answer, one way or the other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Why is there a rebate for electric bicycles, what’s wrong with the old-fashioned Schwinn bicycle? \u00a0 Why do teacher pensions need a boost from the state, why aren’t they paid from teacher contributions? \u00a0 Why do any illegal aliens get free healthcare whether they are children or not? […]<\/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-89716","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\/89716","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=89716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89717,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89716\/revisions\/89717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}