{"id":3334,"date":"2006-09-19T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2017-12-14T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:28:22","slug":"some-unfunded-government-mandates-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/some-unfunded-government-mandates-are-more-equal-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Unfunded Government Mandates Are More Equal Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mandating $15 ID to vote, restoring some measure of faith and legitimacy to elections by making it harder to vote fraudlently?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/4C1068B42A3A2478862571E90078CC25?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Bad.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ordering citizens who would procreate (nowadays, that&#8217;s Republicans and the poor) to add a $49.99 (minimum) booster seat after the mandated $99.99 (minimum) infant car seat and the mandated $99.99 (minimum) toddler car seat on the off chance that the child will be in an automobile crash?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/neighborhoods\/stories.nsf\/stcharlescounty\/news\/story\/3B21C2E66CEB8ED9862571E00068BF10?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Good.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone call me and ask me if I have faith in my government so I can add a couple hundredths of a percentage point to an inconvenient poll that our venal government betters will ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandating $15 ID to vote, restoring some measure of faith and legitimacy to elections by making it harder to vote fraudlently? Bad. Ordering citizens who would procreate (nowadays, that&#8217;s Republicans and the poor) to add a $49.99 (minimum) booster seat after the mandated $99.99 (minimum) infant car seat and the mandated $99.99 (minimum) toddler car [&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-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18541,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/18541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}