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In the US, at least, the shutdowns don't have much to do with our actual spending/borrowing habits. It's a structural quirk of government operation that provide
by 0xcde4c3db 10y ago
In the US, at least, the shutdowns don't have much to do with our actual spending/borrowing habits. It's a structural quirk of government operation that provides a handy perennial disaster to use for political brinkmanship and finger-pointing. Basically "if you don't start being reasonable by caving to my demands, then you're going to cause a government shutdown".
- premium-concern 10y ago> political brinkmanship and finger-pointing The difference is that parties that try to pull that in Germany not only loose elections, but are punished so hard by voters that they can't even get over the necessary 5% requirement in the next election. Have a look what happened to the FDP after they pushed through lower taxes for hotels.
- DasIch 10y agoIn Germany not passing a new budget wouldn't let to a government shutdown. So it's not an option anyway.
- premium-concern 10y agoEven if it did, it wouldn't matter, because people would vote those politicians that tried this shit and their party out of office.