{"id":15481,"date":"2016-07-07T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15481"},"modified":"2016-08-28T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T00:01:56","slug":"a-burden-that-will-never-be-compulsory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/a-burden-that-will-never-be-compulsory\/","title":{"rendered":"A Burden That Will Never Be Compulsory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this sticker on a gas pump in Republic, and I thought it was a capital idea:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gastax.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s provided by an industry group, so to some people that makes it invalid even if it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>You know how the government compels fast food restaurants to post calorie counts?  Wouldn&#8217;t it be <em>informative<\/em> to display the tax burden on everything as well?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the government would never make this information mandatory.  And to post sales tax information would be awfully troublesome for retailers, as overlapping tax districts make these rates vary street-to-street.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the government moved from coming hut-to-hut to collect chickens and crops, it has gotten better and better at hiding how it extracts money from the citizenry and how much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this sticker on a gas pump in Republic, and I thought it was a capital idea: It&#8217;s provided by an industry group, so to some people that makes it invalid even if it&#8217;s true. You know how the government compels fast food restaurants to post calorie counts? Wouldn&#8217;t it be informative to display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481","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=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15485,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions\/15485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}