{"id":11001,"date":"2013-06-20T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2013-06-20T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T17:40:42","slug":"quote-of-the-day-473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-473\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; casino &#8216;taxes&#8217; are really more accurately described as profit-sharing arrangements, making states in effect business partners in gambling operations, a recipe for crony capitalism, favoritism for politically connected businesses, and, now, to no one\u2019s great surprise, bailout considerations &#8230; when the state is a partner, every business is too big to fail.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Kevin Williamson<\/strong>, of the<\/em> National Review, <em>on <strong>Delaware<\/strong> Gov. <strong>Jack Markell<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/351493\/bailout-casinos-kevin-williamson\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">$8 million rescue plan<\/a> for the state&#8217;s racinos<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; casino &#8216;taxes&#8217; are really more accurately described as profit-sharing arrangements, making states in effect business partners in gambling operations, a recipe for crony capitalism, favoritism for politically connected businesses, and, now, to no one\u2019s great surprise, bailout considerations &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-473\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,164,14,33,111,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11002,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}