{"id":176,"date":"2011-01-20T15:24:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2011\/01\/20\/government-is-the-great-fiction-through-which-everybody-endeavors-to-live-at-the-expense-of-everybody-else\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:24:33","slug":"government-is-the-great-fiction-through-which-everybody-endeavors-to-live-at-the-expense-of-everybody-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2011\/01\/20\/government-is-the-great-fiction-through-which-everybody-endeavors-to-live-at-the-expense-of-everybody-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/20\/inoculating-against-true-healt?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FArticles+%28Reason+Online+-+All+Articles+%28except+Hit+%26+Run+blog%29%29\">Inoculating Against True Health Care Reform &#8211; Reason Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Critics have noted many flaws in President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care overhaul: It&#8217;s too expensive, too intrusive, too coercive, and too complex. But one central defect that accounts for much of the other mischief: the pretense that making us all better off is a miraculous, cost-free bonanza.<\/p>\n<p>The 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat foresaw schemes like this when he wrote, &#8220;Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.&#8221; That illusion lies at the heart of the new program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inoculating Against True Health Care Reform &#8211; Reason Magazine Critics have noted many flaws in President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care overhaul: It&#8217;s too expensive, too intrusive, too coercive, and too complex. But one central defect that accounts for much of the other mischief: the pretense that making us all better off is a miraculous, cost-free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}