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No offense but I'm not prepared to inform my policy opinions on the basis of your assurance.
by ip26 8y ago
No offense but I'm not prepared to inform my policy opinions on the basis of your assurance.
- wutbrodo 8y agoWe're rather far from discussing any substantive changes in policy, leaving aside the fact that you only have a single vote to cast. This is an incredibly bizarre response to someone making the case that you have a factually inaccurate model of the way policy works. On the other hand, I appreciate your comment in that the psychology on display here is another data point in helping me understand the psychology of how an ostensibly voter-driven government can be so consistently stupid and backwards: If people's response to "you're misunderstanding how this works" is effectively "my opinion is as important as any fact"
- ip26 8y agosomeone making the case that you have a factually inaccurate model of the way policy works Your case was basically "trust me, I'm right".
- pertymcpert 8y agoYou have no clue how any of this works. Just stop.
- mises 8y agoHe's unfortunately right. I would like to think that slowly disbursing funds over the course of a year would help, but it doesn't. The feds have essentially unlimited capacity to borrow, as evidenced by their constantly running a deficit. It also makes things more expensive in terms of paperwork/administrative bloat on the part of the government, employer, and consumer.