{"id":14454,"date":"2012-03-06T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14454"},"modified":"2012-03-06T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:25:06","slug":"sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-at-how-daft-the-cato-institute-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/06\/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-at-how-daft-the-cato-institute-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you just have to laugh at how daft the Cato Institute is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/06\/us\/cato-institute-and-koch-in-rift-over-independence.html?_r=1&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20120306\" target=\"_blank\">loved the story in the New York Times<\/a> this morning saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Cato Institute says that Charles Koch's Republican activism threatens its reputation for independent research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who are they kidding?<\/p>\n<p>The Cato has been a right wing front for nasty neoliberalism for decades. The Koch\u00a0brothers\u00a0bringing that out into the open changes nothing for most of us! But I guess if you're delusional enough to believe the Cato output maybe it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the story in the New York Times this morning saying: The Cato Institute says that Charles Koch&#8217;s Republican activism threatens its reputation for<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/06\/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-at-how-daft-the-cato-institute-is\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}