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Sounds a lot similar to the Boeing FAA self certification thingy.

• lotsofpulp 6y ago
  But it lowers taxes, and voters will always vote for lower taxes, especially when the benefits aren’t seen as in the case of an effective preventative safety effort. And then something tragic happens, and the voters look for someone to blame, and measures are taken, sometimes overboard. But eventually, the attraction to lower taxes comes back and rinse, repeat.
  • erulabs 6y ago
    > voters will always vote for lower taxes I hear this a lot, and I'm just not sure that's supported by evidence whatsoever. Partially because, well, here you are, ostensibly arguing for higher taxes, but also because the effective tax rates (in the US) on individuals have skyrocketed by... ~2% since 1979? It's hardly like the vast populace is voting anti-tax consistently - that flies in the face of both tax rate history and government spending (and the populist movement in general!). So, TLDR: _some voters_ will always vote for lower taxes. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-average-federal-tax-rates-all-households https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-averag...
    • Gibbon1 6y ago
      About half my dads job was managing contracts for the government. My experience is most voters are completely unaware of that kind of work. More likely is the sleazier contractors[1] hate those guys and have been able to get governments to reduce or eliminate those positions. [1] Companies run by finance guys really hate contract oversight managers.