{"id":4850,"date":"2009-06-13T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:40:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:40:22","slug":"cap-and-trade-nationalized-health-care-crazy-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/cap-and-trade-nationalized-health-care-crazy-delicious\/","title":{"rendered":"Cap and Trade + Nationalized Health Care = Crazy Delicious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, let&#8217;s do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/surrey_area\/surreyleader\/news\/47823327.html\" target=\"_blank\">like the Canadians<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lower Mainland&#8217;s health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.&#8217;s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the payments mean the government&#8217;s strategy to fight climate change will further exacerbate a crisis in health funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have public hospitals cutting services to pay a tax that goes to another 100 per cent government-owned agency,&#8221; NDP health critic Adrian Dix said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/2009\/06\/11\/carbon-tax-endangers-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surber<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, let&#8217;s do it like the Canadians: The Lower Mainland&#8217;s health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.&#8217;s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints. Critics say the payments mean the government&#8217;s strategy to fight climate change will further exacerbate a crisis [&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-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","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=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17037,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions\/17037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}