{"id":181314,"date":"2016-08-02T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/02\/quote-of-the-day-106\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:09:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/02\/quote-of-the-day-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Think rich people get too many nice things from the government? Raise their damn taxes. Don&#8217;t use it as an excuse to make giving nice things to everyone else so complicated that it practically isn&#8217;t worth bothering.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2016\/08\/arse-up.html\">Duncan &#8220;Atrios&#8221; Black<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a most excellent take-down of the over use of means testing of social programs.<\/p>\n<p>It is both morally and fiscally bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am referring to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s objection to Bernie Sanders proposal for free college tuition was the remote possibility that Donald Trumps kids might get a free college education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think rich people get too many nice things from the government? Raise their damn taxes. Don&#8217;t use it as an excuse to make giving nice things to everyone else so complicated that it practically isn&#8217;t worth bothering. \u2014Duncan &#8220;Atrios&#8221; Black This is a most excellent take-down of the over use of means testing of social &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1010,961,1002,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-bureaucracy","category-deep-thoughts","category-good-writing","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}