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You can't make that comparison because the Supreme Court is not dedicated to the agenda of the US Government, in fact, it's not even meaningful to say the US Go
by repolfx 7y ago
You can't make that comparison because the Supreme Court is not dedicated to the agenda of the US Government, in fact, it's not even meaningful to say the US Government has any sort of long term agenda because what the USG wants to do tends to change every time a new President or Congress gets elected.
The EU is different because it has a long term overriding Federalist agenda independent of EU elections, which can't actually change anything.
As for the budgets, maybe you're running behind the times.
Let's take the UK's budget contribution to the EU in 2017, it's about £13 billion. That's a lot of money, the UK is one of the biggest budget contributors.
Just one single fine of one single company, the 2018 fine against Google, clocks in at $5 billion! Earlier in that year the EU fined Qualcomm $1 billion. In 2017 Google was fined $2.7 billion.
The fines against US tech firms alone are in the same range as the entire contribution of one of Europe's biggest economies. There is an absolutely vast conflict of interest there, on a scale never seen before.