{"id":1776,"date":"2004-12-15T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2018-07-30T05:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T10:49:59","slug":"1776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/1776\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Brian Supports Ralph Nader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Ohio,Ralph Nader has filed suit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/columnists.nsf\/davidnicklaus\/story\/E87331708FE7C5E086256F68000599DE?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Nader+lawsuit+puts+tax+incentives+on+trial+in+Ohio\" target=\"_new\">end corporate subsidies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Louis built a $260 million stadium to attract a football team. MasterCard got $41 million of tax incentives to build its technology center here. Ford got $17 million to keep its Hazelwood plant open.<\/p>\n<p>Public officials justified each of those economic development deals as a legitimate investment that created and preserved jobs. But each also could be labeled corporate welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Would we be better off if such subsidies were banned? It&#8217;s an enticing thought to many taxpayers, and a chilling thought to politicians and corporate officials. But the debate has been largely theoretical until recently. Now, a court case in Ohio may make some tax incentives illegal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s a better gadfly than commander in chief, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>The government has no business spending tax monies to either perpetrate itself or to aid corporations so that they might indirectly benefit citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ohio,Ralph Nader has filed suit to end corporate subsidies: St. Louis built a $260 million stadium to attract a football team. MasterCard got $41 million of tax incentives to build its technology center here. Ford got $17 million to keep its Hazelwood plant open. Public officials justified each of those economic development deals as [&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-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20782,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/20782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}