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The closest answer would be willful obliviousness. Like how voting for war funding means borrowing the money from sometime in the future. Politicians know the
by T-hawk 15y ago
The closest answer would be willful obliviousness. Like how voting for war funding means borrowing the money from sometime in the future. Politicians know these consequences on some level, but willfully just push them out of consideration.
Whatever politicians pushed this in California were counting up the tax revenue that would be collected from Amazon. They couldn't have truly been ignorant that Amazon would pull out, but just kind of put the thought aside to push through the tax plan.
edit: I like btilly's point in the child post too.
- btilly 15y agoYou have an excellent point and I think that it is even more cynical than that. They know full well that they wouldn't collect that revenue, but by passing the bill they can pretend that they will, and then they can add that line item to the budget to make it easier to balance on paper (which it has to be before it can be passed).
- pavel_lishin 15y agoNothing that happens after you're out of office matters.
- cheez 15y agoI'm trying to understand how anyone votes for these people.