{"id":1421,"date":"2009-02-05T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2009-02-05T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:23:50","slug":"i-oppose-the-economic-stimulus-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/i-oppose-the-economic-stimulus-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"I Oppose the Economic Stimulus Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email today encouraging me to voice my opinion about the proposed economic stimulus plan. Although I do expect the plan to pass, I agree that it helps to voice opposition. Just as <a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/thrilled-about-the-rejection\">I opposed<\/a> the boondoggle that was once called &#8220;The Bailout&#8221;, I want to be totally clear that I am firmly opposed to the idea and the implementation of the current economic stimulus plan.<\/p>\n<p>I recognize that the free market suffers from market failures, and as such I am generally in favor of <em>well-crafted<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pigovian_tax\">Pigovian taxes<\/a>. However, it never makes sense to send gobs of someone else&#8217;s money towards politically-chosen goals. This always leads to bad situations, as we have seen with the bailout money, and as we will soon see with the stimulus money. Mark my words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email today encouraging me to voice my opinion about the proposed economic stimulus plan. Although I do expect the plan to pass, I agree that it helps to voice opposition. Just as I opposed the boondoggle that was once called &#8220;The Bailout&#8221;, I want to be totally clear that I am firmly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}