{"id":6513,"date":"2021-11-06T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6513"},"modified":"2021-11-06T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:50:42","slug":"its-time-to-kill-the-mandatory-beef-tax-that-underwrites-beef-its-whats-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6513","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time To Kill the Mandatory Beef Tax That Underwrites &#8220;Beef, It&#8217;s What&#8217;s for Dinner&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;&#8221;Today, when you buy a Big Mac or a T-bone, a portion of the cost is a tax on beef, the proceeds from which the government hands over to a private trade group called the National Cattlemen&#8217;s Beef Association (NCBA),&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Washington Monthly&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/janfeb-2014\/big-beef\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in 2014. &#8220;The NCBA in turn uses this public money to buy ads encouraging you to eat more beef.&#8221;&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/10\/09\/its-time-to-kill-the-mandatory-beef-tax-that-underwrites-beef-its-whats-for-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/10\/09\/its-time-to-kill-the-mandatory-beef-tax-that-underwrites-beef-its-whats-for-dinner\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;Today, when you buy a Big Mac or a T-bone, a portion of the cost is a tax on beef, the proceeds from which the government hands over to a private trade group called the National Cattlemen&#8217;s Beef Association (NCBA),&#8221; Washington Monthly reported in 2014. &#8220;The NCBA in turn uses this public money to buy ads encouraging you to eat more beef.&#8221;&#8221;<\/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":[1408,238],"class_list":["post-6513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-beef","tag-subsidies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513","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=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6514,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions\/6514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}