{"id":13016,"date":"2024-02-28T15:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2024-02-28T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:25:22","slug":"the-government-is-better-at-picking-losers-than-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13016","title":{"rendered":"The Government Is Better at Picking Losers Than Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;All investment is risky. What better way to avoid that risk than to use other people&#8217;s money? Federal, state, and local governments dispense gifts, grants, and loans to private companies, generously funded by taxpayers and usually with vague promises of economic development in return. While politicians say they don&#8217;t like to pick winners and losers, even the &#8220;winners&#8221; sometimes turn out to be losers for taxpayers.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/25\/picking-winners-and-losers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/25\/picking-winners-and-losers\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All investment is risky. What better way to avoid that risk than to use other people&#8217;s money? Federal, state, and local governments dispense gifts, grants, and loans to private companies, generously funded by taxpayers and usually with vague promises of economic development in return. While politicians say they don&#8217;t like to pick winners and losers, even the &#8220;winners&#8221; sometimes turn out to be losers for taxpayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/25\/picking-winners-and-losers\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,1469],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-government-intervention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}