{"id":16698,"date":"2025-03-09T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16698"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:33:47","slug":"can-the-private-sector-really-replace-all-government-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16698","title":{"rendered":"Can the Private Sector Really Replace All Government Functions?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I hate our big intrusive government, hate that it grabs almost half our money and micromanages our lives. I hate the politicians who act like good things come from them, rather than from millions of free people pursuing our own interests. I hate that government constantly grows more intrusive and takes more of our money (under both Democrat and Republican administrations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I do think we need some of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/15\/can-the-private-sector-really-replace-all-government-functions\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/15\/can-the-private-sector-really-replace-all-government-functions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hate our big intrusive government, hate that it grabs almost half our money and micromanages our lives. I hate the politicians who act like good things come from them, rather than from millions of free people pursuing our own interests. I hate that government constantly grows more intrusive and takes more of our money (under both Democrat and Republican administrations).<br \/>\nBut I do think we need some of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/15\/can-the-private-sector-really-replace-all-government-functions\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-16698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698","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=16698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16699,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions\/16699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}