{"id":444,"date":"2008-12-16T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/?p=444"},"modified":"2008-12-16T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T00:00:14","slug":"corporate-welfare-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/corporate-welfare-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Welfare &#8211; Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The Mercedes-Benz plant illustrates a fundamental principle of <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/22236\/cars\" target=\"_blank\">corporate welfare<\/a>,&#8221; the article reads. &#8220;Everyone else pays for economic incentives \u2014 either with higher taxes, fewer services or both.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I could not have said it better myself. This article is definitely worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of us want to see them go down,&#8221; McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, said last week, &#8220;but very few of us had anything to do with the dilemma that they\u2019ve created for themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, there\u2019s plenty of blame to go around. Consumers purchased those large vehicles, thus creating the demand. And contrary to McConnell\u2019s statement, many observers argue that Congress had a responsibility to nudge the industry toward better fuel economy years ago. A 1990 vote to increase mileage standards to 40 miles-per-gallon came three votes shy of Senate passage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McConnell voted against it. Shelby, a Democrat at the time, did too.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Mercedes-Benz plant illustrates a fundamental principle of corporate welfare,&#8221; the article reads. &#8220;Everyone else pays for economic incentives \u2014 either with higher taxes, fewer services or both.&#8221; I could not have said it better myself. This article is definitely worth reading. &#8212;- &#8220;None of us want to see them go down,&#8221; McConnell, the Senate &#8230; <a title=\"Corporate Welfare &#8211; Cars\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/corporate-welfare-cars\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Corporate Welfare &#8211; Cars\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}