{"id":1559,"date":"2003-07-23T03:43:19","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T03:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2003-07-23T03:43:19","modified_gmt":"2003-07-23T03:43:19","slug":"a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD IDEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT Op\/Ed pages today are defintely living up (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/23\/opinion\/23BOSH.html?th\">down<\/a>) to their reputation.  Ray Bashara proposes &#8220;giving&#8221; every baby born upwards of $6000.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s how such a system might work in the United States. Each of the four million babies born every year would receive a deposit in an American stakeholder account. Initial deposits could range from, say, $1,000 to $6,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;[B]aby bonds would be restricted to higher education or technical training, a small business or a first home, or they could be put aside for retirement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And where, exactly, does the Constitution grant Congress the power to steal money from my kids to give to the newborn down the street?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT Op\/Ed pages today are defintely living up (down) to their reputation. Ray Bashara proposes &#8220;giving&#8221; every baby born upwards of $6000. Here&#8217;s how such a system might work in the United States. Each of the four million babies born every year would receive a deposit in an American stakeholder account. Initial deposits could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}