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The government of USA is incredibly inefficient at getting anything done. If I had billions of dollars I would always strive to legally pay as least taxes as p
by dheera 5y ago
The government of USA is incredibly inefficient at getting anything done.
If I had billions of dollars I would always strive to legally pay as least taxes as possible and use the funds to contribute back the country in much more efficient ways, including investing in people who are provably getting shit done.
Here's the latest of a constant firehose of misuse of funds I've seen. The gist is that a Stanford professor is basically leeching $40K of tax money at a $5000/hr rate for "consulting" about social justice and equity in schools. I'd rather give that $40K directly toward educational supplies for underprivileged students, or to a hundred tutors and therapists at $50/hr, or something else.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/08/stanford-prof-calls-cops-on-berkeley-prof-who-exposed-her-5k-hour-consulting-fee/ https://nypost.com/2022/04/08/stanford-prof-calls-cops-on-be...
- nobodyandproud 5y agoA state school professor (Berkeley) called out a private school professor (Stanford) for a $5k/hour BS consulting fee. How does that make your case?
- dheera 5y agoThat BS consulting fee comes from my taxes.
- moistly 5y agoStrange that you pick a minuscule—nay, pissant—cost, when you could point to other waste that is literally millions of orders of magnitude greater. The BS consulting fee cost you perhaps a hundred-thousandth of a penny. The unnecessary war in Iraq cost you tens of thousands of dollars. Billions in subsidies to oil companies that are earning record-breaking profits is costing you hundreds of dollars. Don’t let clickbait distract you from the real pain.
- dheera 5y agoStrange that you didn't see this part "the latest of a constant firehose"
- sokoloff 5y ago> literally millions of orders of magnitude greater One order of magnitude is literally 10x (10¹) Two orders of magnitudes is 100x (10²) A million orders of magnitude would be 10¹⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰. Millions of orders of magnitude would be larger still. There are estimated between 10⁷⁸ to 10⁸² atoms in the universe. Perhaps you meant to say “literally six to nine” rather than “literally millions”?
- moistly 5y agoIndeed. The point remains: OP has been fooled into fretting about relatively nothing so that the real issues aren’t noticed.
- nobodyandproud 5y agoAre you an Oxnard resident? How much of the school system is funded federally versus state versus locally? I agree it’s wasteful, but this seems more an indictment of Stanford and the veneer of prestige. It’s also tax dollars that put a check on the nonsense.