{"id":3749,"date":"2007-05-09T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2017-11-29T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:07:23","slug":"crony-capitalists-giveth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/crony-capitalists-giveth\/","title":{"rendered":"Crony Capitalists Giveth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And crony capitalists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=603068\" target=\"_new\">taketh away<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Washington County Board has refused to pay a $4 million subsidy to Cabela&#8217;s Inc., the world&#8217;s largest direct marketer of outdoor gear, for construction of a store that opened in Richfield in September.<\/p>\n<p>A slim majority of supervisors Tuesday voted against borrowing the funds that the board had pledged to Cabela&#8217;s in September 2005 as an incentive for building the store in the county.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know, I rail on crony capitalism in the form of governments giving incentives to certain developers or corporations for selection of one municipality over another, but I&#8217;m even more disturbed that governments are becoming brazen in not holding to their words, resolutions, promises, writs, and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>Pardon me while I synchronize my watch with the continuing countdown to the end of our Western civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And crony capitalists taketh away: The Washington County Board has refused to pay a $4 million subsidy to Cabela&#8217;s Inc., the world&#8217;s largest direct marketer of outdoor gear, for construction of a store that opened in Richfield in September. A slim majority of supervisors Tuesday voted against borrowing the funds that the board had pledged [&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-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","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=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18098,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/18098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}