{"id":189,"date":"2006-06-29T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2006-06-29T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:50:01","slug":"10-simple-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"10 Simple Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General rules&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/28\/AR2006062801981.html\">such as Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech<\/a>&#8211;are pesky things.  As soon as they are posted in the village square people start confusing them.  Luckily, when you have dipped your pen in the minds of the founders, you know that by &#8220;freedom of speech&#8221; Congress clearly meant, &#8220;no rule limiting how much *money* you can spend on a political candidate.&#8221;  After all (1) you use your money to have a candidate &#8220;speak&#8221; for you, (2) your vast sums correlate with how much you have to say (and you have a lot to say if you have a lot of money&#8211;more freedom, as it were), (3) you cannot &#8220;speak&#8221; in any other way than putting your money where you mouth is (so limiting how much freedom you have would violate your right to speak), (4) The Constitution clearly says that no law can separate you from your money, and (5) finally, no law can limit what you spend your money on, because that too is &#8220;speech.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General rules&#8211;such as Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech&#8211;are pesky things. As soon as they are posted in the village square people start confusing them. Luckily, when you have dipped your pen in the minds of the founders, you know that by &#8220;freedom of speech&#8221; Congress clearly meant, &#8220;no rule limiting how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 Simple Rules<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accident","category-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}