{"id":2041,"date":"2008-11-24T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2008-11-24T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T00:39:00","slug":"good-policies-that-will-never-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Good Policies that will never Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can read an argument in favour of an increased gas tax <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/24\/the-gas-tax-revisited-a-guest-post\/#more-3335\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s certainly some validity to the argument. We\u2019re teetering on a deficit, yet gas prices are falling (or will be) and there are concerns about deflation. Sure, no politician would ever dare propose such a sound policy but, then again, are the alternatives any more appealing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read an argument in favour of an increased gas tax here. There\u2019s certainly some validity to the argument. We\u2019re teetering on a deficit, yet gas prices are falling (or will be) and there are concerns about deflation. Sure, no politician would ever dare propose such a sound policy but, then again, are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}