{"id":2153,"date":"2005-04-14T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2018-07-02T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:31:44","slug":"2153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/14\/2153\/","title":{"rendered":"Government-Mandated Monopoly Hurts Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note the slant of the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> headline: &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/43668BAC551A4EDC86256FE300141CE1?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Lifting of limits in Dallas could cost AA<\/a>&quot;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A push by Southwest Airlines to lift restrictions on its flights from Love Field in Dallas could cost American Airlines at least $250 million a year in revenue, including a 39 percent revenue drop on flights between Dallas\/Fort Worth and St. Louis, according to an industry report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I think this increased competition would be good for consumers, you know, the little guy.  But the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> is not his champion; it&#8217;s the fierce cheerleader of government meddling in markets to benefit one company over another or over the citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note the slant of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline: &quot;Lifting of limits in Dallas could cost AA&quot;: A push by Southwest Airlines to lift restrictions on its flights from Love Field in Dallas could cost American Airlines at least $250 million a year in revenue, including a 39 percent revenue drop on flights between Dallas\/Fort [&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-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","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=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20302,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/20302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}