{"id":530,"date":"2012-08-02T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/the-profits-of-oppression"},"modified":"2012-08-02T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:30:17","slug":"the-profits-of-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/business\/the-profits-of-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"The Profits of Oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A greater threat to open markets than bureaucrats, union bosses or socialists are business owners who exploit regulations to prey on entrepreneurs, argues well-known commentator Luke Johnson of the UK private equity firm Risk Capital Partners. He writes: \u201cPoliticians, civil servants and their co-conspirators \u2013 lawyers \u2013 justify their existence by endlessly passing new legislation [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/uk\/the-profits-of-oppression\">The Profits of Oppression<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/uk\">Business UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/uk\/the-profits-of-oppression\">Business UK\u00bb News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A greater threat to open markets than bureaucrats, union bosses or socialists are business owners who exploit regulations to prey on entrepreneurs, argues well-known commentator Luke Johnson of the UK private equity firm Risk Capital Partners. He writes: \u201cPoliticians, civil servants and their co-conspirators \u2013 lawyers \u2013 justify their existence by endlessly passing new legislation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[788,787],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-oppression","tag-profits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}