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In the entire rest of the world it is much easier to mandate things to the people. It is much harder in America as many voter will see it as a slippery slope ag
by frockington 8y ago
In the entire rest of the world it is much easier to mandate things to the people. It is much harder in America as many voter will see it as a slippery slope against individual liberties. "First its my health care, next its my guns, and finally its my freedom of speech" will be the argument preventing it from occuring
- omegaworks 8y agoYou're moving the goalposts. First "government can't do it efficiently," which is wrong, so now it's "it's not politically palatable." The first step to making something politically palatable is actually making the case for it and building momentum. If you frame it with political palatability as the metric for whether you actively pursue the policy, the whole discussion devolves into a chicken-and-egg problem.
- frockington 8y agoOkay we'll go back to the efficiency issue. Look at Europe and Canada's GDP, now look at Americas. Why would the US want to copy anything from those nations. I enjoy living in the most dominant country in the world. Europeans will respond with "Inequality and capitalism are bad" arguments that I don't buy because once again, the US is dominating socialist countries in Europe
- ceejayoz 8y ago> Okay we'll go back to the efficiency issue. Oh, let's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_per_capita_by_country.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_p...
- frockington 8y agoI think that is proving my lack of faith in government efficiency
- DesiLurker 8y agocorrection, rich in US are dominating. rest of us are nowhere near reaping the benefits of 'selective capitalism' here. case in point, elsewhere in HN today there was a story comment made by fed chair to that effect on economic growth.