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Isn't the point of government to represent the people? Sure, the parent poster is but one person, but on the whole, Americans were in favor of Net Neutrality.
by dfxm12 8y ago
Isn't the point of government to represent the people? Sure, the parent poster is but one person, but on the whole, Americans were in favor of Net Neutrality.
Perhaps outright defending FANG is going too far, but the parent definitely has a point that ISP's should be looked into when we're discussing "breaking up" companies.
- gnopgnip 8y agoThere are multiple ways to represent the people and their best interests. It is not always the role of the government to do what is most popular. Raising taxes instead of increased deficit spending is an example of something that is often unpopular, but in many cases the objectively better option.
- pessimizer 8y ago> Raising taxes instead of increased deficit spending is an example of something that is often unpopular, but in many cases the objectively better option. I don't think that you could get any reasonably representative range of economists in a room to even agree that this is ever a better option, so I think your claim to objectivity is unwarranted.
- dragonwriter 8y agoWell, if the pre-existing taxes were zero, you could probably get a most economists to agree that raising taxes was better than increasing deficit spending. Beyond that...yeah.