{"id":19225,"date":"2013-10-24T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19225"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T14:59:04","slug":"taxpayers-get-more-tricks-than-treats-at-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19225\/taxpayers-get-more-tricks-than-treats-at-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers Get More Tricks Than Treats at Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Halloween, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectingtaxpayers.org\/index.php?blog&amp;action=view&amp;post_id=266\" target=\"_blank\">publication<\/a> listing some of the frightening ways government spends money to subsidize pumpkin growers, pumpkin tossing competitions, corn mazes and other fall festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectingtaxpayers.org\/index.php?blog&amp;action=view&amp;post_id=266\" target=\"_blank\">finds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal taxpayers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to underwrite pumpkin growers and subsidize the cost of federal pumpkin crop insurance programs\u00a0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An agritourism grant scheme in Tennessee forces state taxpayers to fund handouts to pumpkin patches, hayrides and haunted houses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Each October, taxpayers in Aurora, Colo., shell out over $100,000 to bankroll \u201cPunkin\u2019 Chunkin\u2019 Colorado,\u201d an event where competitors use homemade machines to launch pumpkins hundreds of feet through the air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that Halloween is upon us again, the same wasteful programs \u2013 and many others \u2013 have come back to life like money-devouring zombies. We\u2019d all be better off if we could bury these pork projects and silly subsidies once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Halloween, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance released a publication listing some of the frightening ways government spends money to subsidize pumpkin growers, pumpkin tossing competitions, corn mazes and other fall festivities. Among the finds: Federal taxpayers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to underwrite pumpkin growers and subsidize the cost of federal pumpkin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19226,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions\/19226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}