{"id":431,"date":"2002-07-20T09:51:17","date_gmt":"2002-07-20T17:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=431"},"modified":"2004-10-21T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T06:01:39","slug":"the-government-we-pay-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"the government we pay for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=2066564\">Steven E. Landsburg writes in Slate<\/a> of all places:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Either a) the justices &#8211; having concluded that paying compensation would transform routine government activity into &#8220;a luxury few governments could afford&#8221; &#8211; are prepared to draw the logical conclusion that routine government activity is not worth the cost, and therefore local governments should for the most part be out of business; or b) the justices are incapable of employing enough elementary logic and economic analysis to understand the implications of their own opinion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven E. Landsburg writes in Slate of all places: Either a) the justices &#8211; having concluded that paying compensation would transform routine government activity into &#8220;a luxury few governments could afford&#8221; &#8211; are prepared to draw the logical conclusion that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=431\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}