{"id":4381,"date":"2008-04-22T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2017-11-09T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:50:10","slug":"the-horse-pushing-the-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/the-horse-pushing-the-cart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horse Pushing The Cart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> got things in the wrong order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/CE1165B40A7965E78625743300108714?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> when it describes a citizen expressing his views to his leaders:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Ignoring lobbying from a major Republican campaign donor<\/b>, the House voted overwhelmingly Monday to grant the largest tax break ever in Missouri to a Canadian firm.<\/p>\n<p>With little debate, legislators approved a package aimed at luring Montreal-based Bombardier Aerospace to build a $375 million plant near Kansas City International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan vote was 125-16. The bill now moves to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Bombardier could draw up to $40 million a year for 22 years, as could other &#8220;mega-projects&#8221; that invest at least $300 million and employ 1,000 people at above-average wages.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, led by multimillionaire Rex Sinquefield of St. Louis, have questioned whether the state would get its money back. His free-market think tank, the Show-Me Institute, recommends the state give tax breaks to everyone instead of picking projects to promote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The paper uses <i>lobbying<\/i> as a negatively laden code word these days which means &#8220;sought government attention.&#8221;  The fact that he often gives to Republicans is also a code that he&#8217;s a fat cat.  In short, the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> tries to marginalize the person&#8217;s views, which are that the state shouldn&#8217;t engage in crony capitalism and give breaks to its friends or to projects its legislators like.<\/p>\n<p>A good principle, but not one to even consider when it comes from a wealthy Republican lobbyist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the St. Louis Post-Dispatch got things in the wrong order here when it describes a citizen expressing his views to his leaders: Ignoring lobbying from a major Republican campaign donor, the House voted overwhelmingly Monday to grant the largest tax break ever in Missouri to a Canadian firm. With little debate, legislators approved [&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-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","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=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17326,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/17326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}