{"id":4379,"date":"2008-04-20T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2017-11-09T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:48:52","slug":"rah-rah-go-crony-capitalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/rah-rah-go-crony-capitalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Rah! Rah! Go, Crony Capitalists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The piece in bizjournals.com is entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/extraedge\/consultants\/growing_pains\/2008\/04\/14\/column13.html?ana=e_sol\" target=\"_blank\">Yeah, it&#8217;s tax deadline, but government isn&#8217;t all bad<\/a>, but I think I&#8217;ve summed up the point with my headline.  Author asserts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sorry to disappoint all you tax-and-spend bashers out there. This won&#8217;t be another article bemoaning profligate government spending and the ill effects of our tax system on American businesses, jobs, consumers and bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>As worthy a cause as that is, it&#8217;s really too easy &#8211; shooting the proverbial fish in a barrel. I need a more challenging task. <\/p>\n<p>How about all the benefits our government bestows on us when it spends all that tax money? <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket &#8211; science fiction. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see. <\/p>\n<p>Wait. Give me a minute. I&#8217;ll think of something. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve got it! <\/p>\n<p>Technology. <\/p>\n<p>We live in a society and economy that requires constant technological advances. Whatever your views on government, one is forced to admit the fact that government is responsible for funding basic research. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, the author certainly killed a number of words in his minimum with that transition, didn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>But from then on, it&#8217;s all about how government buys us Tang by taking from my poor elderly one-eyed neighbor and giving to universities sitting on fat endowments and defense companies awash in government contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Spare me the huzzahs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The piece in bizjournals.com is entitled Yeah, it&#8217;s tax deadline, but government isn&#8217;t all bad, but I think I&#8217;ve summed up the point with my headline. Author asserts: Sorry to disappoint all you tax-and-spend bashers out there. This won&#8217;t be another article bemoaning profligate government spending and the ill effects of our tax system on [&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-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","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=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17324,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/17324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}