@ATabarrok Regardless of the proportions, the Tupac point stands. If we want to spend money on the poor, it has to be found or a decision has to be made to borrow it.
If we decide (it's not 'we' any more, it's just Trump) to go to war, the money is just conjured and put on the debt ledger
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This is the true legacy of DOGE - the utter decimation of medical research.
MAGA idiots will try to tell you this is just cutting DEI programs. Keep in mind DOGE was filled with such idiots they killed physics grants that mentioned 'polarization' (of light) because of "DEI".
@Noahpinion I agreed with a lot of what he said (if a bit trivial). But he got a huge social issue just wrong. DOG PARKS are the most anti-Bowling Alone part of American life right now.
It's probably the place where neighbors who don't know each other are most likely to start chatting.
@DoctorVive Reconciliation does not require you to use tax credits rather than other spending mechanisms. But it is true that Dems prefer for nonsense accounting reasons to make things tax credits, thereby destroying their own initiatives.
@pugAroundX@JamesSurowiecki That's what the Senate is for. In the EC, presidential candidates don't campaign in small states. In a majority vote system, candidates would campaign wherever they thought they could get the most votes, making those citizens matter.
@PaulRoundy1@JamesSurowiecki Majority rule would incentivize GREATER responsiveness to minority viewpoints as candidates created majorities rather than appealing to what happens to be laying around the swing states.
@PaulRoundy1@JamesSurowiecki The EC incentivizes Presidential candidates to not bother with states that aren't in play. And to focus on the biggest residential clusters they can play to in the swing states.
@ctrlaltdelnull@calleymeans@SharonR66532 It IS anti-science to be so bad at science when the path to doing it properly has been pointed out to you over and over again.