{"id":75,"date":"2004-03-05T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T10:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2004-03-05T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2004-03-05T10:04:43","slug":"protectionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Protectionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Farber&#8217;s IP List has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/archives\/interesting-people\/200403\/msg00044.html\">an interesting post<\/a> on controlled economies:<br \/>\nEinar Stefferud writes:<br \/>\n&#8220;Reminds me of efforts to [support] Wisconsin.<br \/>\nI well remember how we had to buy margarine by mail order and hand mix<br \/>\nin the yellow coloring because it was against to law there to sell it<br \/>\nany other way.<br \/>\nAnd, the law required that all apple pie served in any state institution,<br \/>\nlike the University of Wisconsin had to be served with a slice of Wisconsin<br \/>\nCheese.  Most of that cheese went into the garbage because most people did<br \/>\nnot want cheese with their apple pie.<br \/>\nThis kind of foolishness does not help an economy to grow jobs.  It just<br \/>\ncauses stagnation and waste and loss of incentives.<br \/>\nAnd higher taxes to pay for the waste.<br \/>\nEconomies do not thrive under central control.<br \/>\nEconomies and Internets do better without central control of details.<br \/>\nAnd, in the international situation, this is the beginning  of a trade war,<br \/>\nala the beginning to the 1930&#8217;s depression, which lasted for approximately<br \/>\n10 years until WW-II finally bailed us out.<br \/>\nBTW, the trade wars were a major aspect of the causes of WW-II.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Farber&#8217;s IP List has an interesting post on controlled economies: Einar Stefferud writes: &#8220;Reminds me of efforts to [support] Wisconsin. I well remember how we had to buy margarine by mail order and hand mix in the yellow coloring because it was against to law there to sell it any other way. And, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}