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@HistoryBuff
Governments are predictable.
Lol no they are not. Look at Venezuela.
Not to mention nobody predicted Trump was going to rock the boat for the established limousine elites in DC.
Governments are predictable.
Governments are predictable.Lol no they are not. Look at Venezuela.
Not to mention nobody predicted Trump was going to rock the boat for the established limousine elites in DC.
By making them all richer and cow towing to their will? Because that is exactly what he has done. Sure he talks a big game and does moronic things like declaring war on Iran, but when it comes to domestic policy, trump does exactly what the establishment republicans tell him to do. Maybe with some extra corruption thrown in.
If That's your idea of a predictable government, I have some swamp land to sell you.
or, we could let people keep more of the money they earn?
Lowes and Home Depot actually pay fairly decently.
someone did the math for inflation and the minimum would be like 9 something an hour,
perhaps spending and waste could be cut so people could keep more of what they earn, your take home is all that really matters, what you get to keep and spend.
i never claimed trump is predictable. He is a narcissistic child with the nuclear codes. What he is though, is predictably greedy and corrupt. If you can convince him something will benefit him personally, he will go for it. Whether it is smart, good for the country, or even legal, is completely irrelevant to trump. Since the corrupt politicians and billionaires want to make the rich richer, that is a really easy sell.
lol, every 1st rate philosopher knows everyone has self-interest and greed and power corrupts absolutely.This is old news.
How do you feel about corporate CNN's recent hit pieces on Bernie?
It's no secret that the DNC controls the state media coverage and the debates, and it's no secret the DNC wants Biden or Warren.
So because workers have some sort of leverage to bargain with, you see that as a multi-billion dollar company being powerless? They are incredibly powerful, they just don't have absolute power like they would prefer.
The reality is very different from your fantasy unfortunately. Insurance companies have found that it is more profitably to co-operate with the medical companies and pay outrageously over priced costs for hospitals and drugs because they know they can squeeze it out of people anyway. When your choice is pay the cost or die, it doesn't leave people with any options.
Of course not, you get bargaining power. When you represent the entire US health insurance industry you have the power to negotiate better prices. When individual companies who have no problem squeezing the money out of their customers are in charge of it, the result is ridiculous runaway costs.
The details would be highly important. Would the schools be obligated to take students who choose to use their voucher or could they refuse students? Because at that point it would be very easy for rich parents to make a donation to a school and get their child a spot while a poor person's voucher is refused. You would then see the exact same problems we have now where the rich just go to private schools and the poor have public schools.
I have seen sources vary based on what numbers they are using. Here is a study showing that between 2010-2016, every single drug that was approved received government funding. This was over 100 billion dollars.
You are assuming a few things that would have to all work, all the time. 1) you assume that there are honest, trustworthy competitors. If they are all corrupt, which most of them are, then this wouldn't happen. 2) you assume the market would react. Companies are doing shitty things every minute of every day all across america. the "market" hears about a teeny tiny percentage of them. And even if the "market" hears about them, they can only react to so many stories. If there are 10's of thousands of companies doing shitty things every day, only a tiny percentage of those are going to receive significant blow back from them. It is much more profitable to be crooked. And if you get caught, you apologize, maybe pay off a few lawsuits for grieving families, then go right back to doing it again.The market cannot ever, under any circumstances, force companies to stop being assholes. They will continuous screw people over as frequently and as severely as the possibly can. You can punish a few of them for these actions. but people's attention spans are too short and there are just too many cases for it to ever be effective. The much better plan is to have strict regulations and laws in place that will severely punish them if they do shitty things.
General electric is a massive multinational conglomerate. They are reported to be the 4th largest corporate polluter in america. They have massive holdings in oil and chemicals. They have on many occasions been found to have caused massive contamination including one time they dumped more than 100,000 tons of chemicals from their plant in Waterford, New York.They invest in green energy with one hand to get some good publicity, while massively investing in pollution, poison and death with the other. This is a perfect example why "the market" can never hold these companies accountable. They will us their massive resources to publicize the handful of good things they do, while making huge amounts of money exploiting people and spreading poison. But that money buys alot of good headlines.