{"id":1570,"date":"2004-10-02T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:56:31","slug":"1570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/02\/1570\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Logical Step Down The Slippery Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Representative Frank Boyle of northern Wisconsin gives insight into the proper role of the citizen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boyle told the board he first met Leggate in 1984 when she was a secretary at City Hall. He said she costs the state $24,000 every year she\u2019s in prison and she needs to get back into the work force and generate tax revenue, especially with the state facing a deficit in its next budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This person, a convicted murderer sentenced to life, should return to society so that she can generate tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Government seizes private property to whomever it thinks will generate the most tax revenue for it.  What logically stops it from next using its citizens in the best, most revenue-enhancing way?<\/p>\n<p>More on the outrage at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments_w_sidebars\/3318\/\" target=\"_new\">Boots and Sabers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Representative Frank Boyle of northern Wisconsin gives insight into the proper role of the citizen: Boyle told the board he first met Leggate in 1984 when she was a secretary at City Hall. He said she costs the state $24,000 every year she\u2019s in prison and she needs to get back into the work [&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-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","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=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}