{"id":394,"date":"2004-07-28T21:51:45","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2004-07-28T21:51:45","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T21:51:45","slug":"contradictions_polls_politics_and_public_spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Contradictions, Polls, Politics and Public Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2004\/07\/on_the_contradi.html\">Bryan Caplan on the contradictions of US citizens<\/a>:  we&#8217;re for spending restraint, but won&#8217;t identify any specific cuts.  64% believe spend too much on welfare, but only 26% are willing to actually enforce a 2-year limit if welfare recipients would have to take a &#8220;low wage that would make it difficult to support a family.&#8221;  Fascinating reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Caplan on the contradictions of US citizens: we&#8217;re for spending restraint, but won&#8217;t identify any specific cuts. 64% believe spend too much on welfare, but only 26% are willing to actually enforce a 2-year limit if welfare recipients would have to take a &#8220;low wage that would make it difficult to support a family.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}