{"id":1863,"date":"2009-09-10T09:08:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2009-09-10T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:18:41","slug":"why-charge-only-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/why-charge-only-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Why charge only $10 for something this good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate voted to charge $10 to visitors to the U.S. to promote&#8230;U.S. tourism.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/travel\/us-senate-passes-new-international-visitor-fee-1.1434324\">Really<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lawmakers said many international governments aggressively help tourism in their countries by subsidizing promotional programs, but the United States leaves that work to the private sector and to state and local governments.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One might read this to say that the U.S. is looking to close the gap in freedom between us and the rest of the world by funneling more spending through Washington.\u00a0 But this tax would land on <em>tourists<\/em>, not Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why the EU is threatening retaliatory taxes on American tourists going there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate voted to charge $10 to visitors to the U.S. to promote&#8230;U.S. tourism. Really. Lawmakers said many international governments aggressively help tourism in their countries by subsidizing promotional programs, but the United States leaves that work to the private sector and to state and local governments. One might read this to say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invisible-trade-offs","category-stupid-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}