{"id":10128,"date":"2015-08-09T09:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2015-08-09T09:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T16:39:41","slug":"welfare-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=10128","title":{"rendered":"Welfare for the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10129\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=10129\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg?fit=3648%2C2736&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1404462099&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2297\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10129\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg?resize=250%2C188&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2297.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8220;Tesla appeals to confused consumers who simultaneously want to display ostentation and green virtue.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0a great line by Holman Jenkins on the WSJ editorial page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My beef is that Tesla is welfare for the rich.\u00a0 A $10,000 tax credit for the car buyer.\u00a0 Fuel economy credits for Tesla that they sell to pickup truck manufacturers and an unknown amount of tax credits and local government benefits for the privilege of having one of their facilities. \u00a0 Rich people should be allowed to spend their money any way they like but average taxpayers shouldn&#8217;t have to finance their purchases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sell Tesla short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tesla appeals to confused consumers who simultaneously want to display ostentation and green virtue.&#8221; \u00a0a great line by Holman Jenkins on the WSJ editorial page. My beef is that Tesla is welfare for the rich.\u00a0 A $10,000 tax credit for the car buyer.\u00a0 Fuel economy credits for Tesla that they sell to pickup truck manufacturers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[301,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2Dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10130,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions\/10130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}