{"id":40662,"date":"2017-10-31T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40662"},"modified":"2017-10-30T17:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:09:29","slug":"how-sugar-subsidies-ruin-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/31\/how-sugar-subsidies-ruin-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sugar Subsidies Ruin Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xlaNWD5ofWU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 30 Oct 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Halloween while you&#8217;re getting pudgy from candy, crony capitalists are getting rich off of sugar subsidies. The system is rigged through price controls, subsidies, and tariffs, all designed to protect the sugar industry from competition \u2013 and basic math. In the latest &#8220;Mostly Weekly&#8221; Andrew Heaton tears into the Willy Wonkas gaming the system, and shows why an open market can more than handle your sugar craving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published on 30 Oct 2017 This Halloween while you&#8217;re getting pudgy from candy, crony capitalists are getting rich off of sugar subsidies. The system is rigged through price controls, subsidies, and tariffs, all designed to protect the sugar industry from competition \u2013 and basic math. In the latest &#8220;Mostly Weekly&#8221; Andrew Heaton tears into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,66,53,13],"tags":[727,266,793],"class_list":["post-40662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-health-science","category-politics","category-usa","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-protectionism","tag-subsidies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-azQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40663,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40662\/revisions\/40663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}