{"id":19016,"date":"2025-10-05T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=19016"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:55:11","slug":"how-we-fund-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/how-we-fund-things\/","title":{"rendered":"How we fund things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If we want anything from our governments &#8211; roads, drinkable water, an education system, health care, a pipeline, postal service, safe working conditions, air traffic control, security &#8211; we have to pay for it. Governments fund these things through taxation, charging royalties on publicly-owned resources, borrowing, or, in the case of the federal government, creating money. This first of those three things seem to be things most political parties campaign against, meaning that they often add \u201ctax cuts, royalty exemptions, and deficit reduction\u201d to the list. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about the fourth?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/dougaldlamont.substack.com\/p\/a-report-from-canadas-library-of\">Dougald Lamont<\/a> and let\u2019s talk about this. Because the problems we are having aren\u2019t due to underfunding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we want anything from our governments &#8211; roads, drinkable water, an education system, health care, a pipeline, postal service, safe working conditions, air traffic control, security &#8211; we have to pay for it. Governments fund these things through taxation, charging royalties on publicly-owned resources, borrowing, or, in the case of the federal government, creating money. This first of those three things seem to be things most political parties campaign against, meaning that they often add \u201ctax cuts, royalty exemptions, and deficit reduction\u201d to the list. . What about the fourth? Read Dougald Lamont and let\u2019s talk about this. Because &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Let\u2019s think about how we fund things. ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-4WI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19017,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016\/revisions\/19017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}