{"id":17585,"date":"2013-04-02T00:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T04:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17585"},"modified":"2013-04-02T00:40:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T04:40:50","slug":"private-philanthropy-saves-easter-egg-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17585\/private-philanthropy-saves-easter-egg-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Philanthropy Saves Easter Egg Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If corporate welfare is subsidies paid by government to businesses, then is government welfare subsidies (voluntarily) paid by businesses to government?<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-house-easter-egg-roll-sustained-by-corporate-donors-sales-of-souvenirs\/2013\/03\/31\/fd446216-9a21-11e2-9a79-eb5280c81c63_story.html \" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>, a $25,000 corporate donation from the parent company of the popular Airborne cold tablets played a big role in funding the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 135-year-old tradition the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1795-sequestering-easter-egg-roll-just-latest-white-house-scare-tactic\" target=\"_blank\">White House threatened to cancel<\/a> over budget sequestration.\u00a0 Other funds came from the sale of commemorative eggs sold at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this could be the beginning of a trend.\u00a0 With the sequester lopping off between <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/03\/04\/17180693-making-sense-of-the-clashing-sequester-numbers?lite\" target=\"_blank\">$42 to $85 billion<\/a> from the federal budget this year, perhaps it\u2019s worth exploring which government programs could generate enough private support to ease the strain on current and future taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows; maybe we\u2019ll get to see signs at the entrance of national parks saying, \u201cSupported by Wal-Mart,\u201d or \u201cBrought to You by Whole Food Markets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If corporate welfare is subsidies paid by government to businesses, then is government welfare subsidies (voluntarily) paid by businesses to government? According to the Washington Post, a $25,000 corporate donation from the parent company of the popular Airborne cold tablets played a big role in funding the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 135-year-old tradition the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,4088,4089,4090,4046,2249,44],"class_list":["post-17585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-easter","tag-egg","tag-philanthropy","tag-sequester","tag-subsidy","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17585"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17592,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions\/17592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}