{"id":84,"date":"2025-08-07T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:22:05","slug":"mamdanis-bad-ideas-part-1-seizing-the-means-of-production-government-run-groceries-high-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mamdani\u2019s Bad Ideas, Part 1: Seizing the Means of Production, Government-Run Groceries &#038; High Taxes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is&#0160; from the libertarian John Stossel. I am no libertarian but he&#39;s right about everything here. Eight minutes long. Here&#39;s a cool quote from the first comment on this video. &quot;<span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\">The mouse dies in the trap because it doesn&#39;t understand why the cheese is free. Socialism.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jXaS9Ya6GoI?si=2xxU5aQiM-tlzAhn\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is&#0160; from the libertarian John Stossel. I am no libertarian but he&#39;s right about everything here. Eight minutes long. Here&#39;s a cool quote from the first comment on this video. &quot;The mouse dies in the trap because it doesn&#39;t understand why the cheese is free. Socialism.&quot; &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}