{"id":2425,"date":"2013-06-30T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T13:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2013-06-30T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:21:38","slug":"food-stamps-democracy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/06\/30\/food-stamps-democracy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Stamps (Democracy 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide what effect a food stamps policy like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should have on the happiness of socialists. Which of these sounds like a socialist view on the issue:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Food stamps are awesome, as they are, by definition a redistribution of wealth, and reduce poverty and thus are something socialists want&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nor<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Food stamps are teh evil, because they merely paper over the cracks caused by low wages and a regressive tax system. They patronize the poor in the manner of soup kitchens, rather than providing them with worthwhile jobs&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/food.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2426\" alt=\"food\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/food.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t decide. I&#8217;m in the UK, where we don&#8217;t have this policy, and I&#8217;m not used to hearing the debate. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide what effect a food stamps policy like this: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program Should have on the happiness of socialists. Which of these sounds like a socialist view on the issue: &#8220;Food stamps are awesome, as they are, by definition a redistribution of wealth, and reduce poverty and thus are something socialists want&#8221; or &#8220;Food stamps<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Food Stamps (Democracy 3)<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/06\/30\/food-stamps-democracy-3\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy3","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}