{"id":861,"date":"2008-07-27T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T19:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/27\/the-money-pit\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T05:52:30","slug":"the-money-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-money-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"our money pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elbert County&#8217;s largest employer is Government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sunset-7_28_08.jpg\" title=\"July 28, 2008\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sunset-july-29-2008.jpg\" title=\"July 29, 2008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sunset-july-29-2008.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"July 29, 2008\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sunset-july-30-2008.jpg\" title=\"July 30, 2008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sunset-july-30-2008.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"July 30, 2008\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sunset-aug-01-2008.jpg\" title=\"August 1, 2008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sunset-aug-01-2008.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"August 1, 2008\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sunset-7_28_08.jpg\" title=\"July 28, 2008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sunset-7_28_08.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"July 28, 2008\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/august-04-2008.jpg\" title=\"August 04, 2008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/august-04-2008.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"August 04, 2008\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It can spend only what it first collects from taxpayers.<\/li>\n<li>It does not add any <em>net positive value<\/em> to the county.<\/li>\n<li>It does not make a profit.<\/li>\n<li>It controls and regulates who may engage in true profit-making enterprises in the county.<\/li>\n<li>It controls and regulates <em>who<\/em> may live <em>where<\/em> and<em> how <\/em>in the county.<\/li>\n<li>Elbert County&#8217;s largest employer would not exist without the coercive power of the state to prop it up.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>direct cost<\/em> of Elbert County&#8217;s largest employer is the tax cost to citizens.<\/li>\n<li>The<em> indirect cost<\/em> of Elbert County&#8217;s largest employer is an &#8220;<em>opportunity cost<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; the value of profit (<em>wealth<\/em>) that would have been added to the county if the people and resources consumed by Elbert County would have been engaged in private enterprise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elbert County citizens have been brainwashed into believing that this losing enterprise is their best hope for a better future.  Not only is it not, it is physically impossible for it to ever be so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elbert County&#8217;s largest employer is Government. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; It can spend only what it first collects from taxpayers. It does not add any net positive value to the county. It does not make a profit. It controls and regulates who may engage in true profit-making enterprises in the county. It controls and regulates who may live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}