{"id":4717,"date":"2014-06-04T22:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2014-06-04T22:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T02:30:24","slug":"a-lesson-in-cause-and-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/a-lesson-in-cause-and-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"A lesson in cause and effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/business\/surge-in-property-tax-bills-spurs-push-to-reform-t\/ngBXt\/?icmp=statesman_internallink_textlink_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch#c710210c.3313332.735385\">This educational tale comes from Austin, Texas<\/a>. \u00a0A city known as a liberal stronghold in an otherwise sensible state.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes one\u00a0Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist, who has &#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can\u2019t afford to live here anymore. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why can Ms. Gardner no longer afford to live in Austin? \u00a0Her property taxes have gone up in order to play every thing she voted for!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a financial hint for Ms. Gardner, buses are always a better economic choice over light rail. \u00a0Unless you are in the public service unions that will maintain and run the more expensive to build\/maintain\/operate light rail systems.<\/p>\n<p>She wants a bigger government to be her nanny state, but like most leftists, wants someone else to pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This educational tale comes from Austin, Texas. \u00a0A city known as a liberal stronghold in an otherwise sensible state. The article quotes one\u00a0Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist, who has &#8220;&#8230;voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can\u2019t afford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,6,19,20,28],"tags":[294,411,480,621,753],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-economy","category-politics","category-progressives","category-taxes-politics","tag-economy","tag-idiot","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1e5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}