{"id":9625,"date":"2012-06-20T04:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T04:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/regulating-political-speech\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T04:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T04:30:45","slug":"regulating-political-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/regulating-political-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulating Political Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2012\/06\/20\/regulating_political_speech_114541.html\" target=\"_self\">A good article<\/a> by John Stossel.&#0160; Punch line:&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It is shameful that leftists let their hatred of corporations lead them to throw free speech under the bus. There is a smarter way to get corporate money out of politics: Shrink the state. If government has fewer favors to sell, citizens will spend less money trying to win them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Or as one of my aphorisms has it: <em>The bigger the government, the more to fight over!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good article by John Stossel.&#0160; Punch line:&#0160; It is shameful that leftists let their hatred of corporations lead them to throw free speech under the bus. There is a smarter way to get corporate money out of politics: Shrink the state. If government has fewer favors to sell, citizens will spend less money trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/regulating-political-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Regulating Political Speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}