{"id":15054,"date":"2016-01-14T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2016-01-14T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:11:50","slug":"because-special-interest-groups-are-groups-that-disagree-with-the-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/because-special-interest-groups-are-groups-that-disagree-with-the-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Because &#8220;Special Interest Groups&#8221; Are Groups That Disagree With The Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/local\/missouri\/2016\/01\/13\/missouri-business-groups-voice-support-gas-take-hike\/78766630\/\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri business groups voice support for gas tax hike<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chambers of commerce, heavy construction and engineering trade groups, and municipal and county government associations were among those who testified in favor of the legislation Wednesday at a Senate transportation committee hearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is, groups that would directly or indirectly benefit from increasing taxes on everyone favor raising those taxes.<\/p>\n<p>All right, raising taxes on <em>people who buy gasoline<\/em> which is a subset of &#8220;everyone.&#8221;  However, the purpose is the same.  And they&#8217;re not just business groups, they&#8217;re <em>business groups who benefit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri business groups voice support for gas tax hike: Chambers of commerce, heavy construction and engineering trade groups, and municipal and county government associations were among those who testified in favor of the legislation Wednesday at a Senate transportation committee hearing. That is, groups that would directly or indirectly benefit from increasing taxes on everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}