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So, what is your solution for building infrastructure? Funding the military? Social programs? Snow removal? Libraries? Education?

• honkycat 4y ago
  Or producing meat, or maintaining prisons, or building security critical CPUs, or funding medical research... These people think the market exists, but really we just have a fucked-up version of socialism that privatizes the profits while subsidizing the risk. It supports toxic industries while fucking everyone else over. In this case, particularly talking about agriculture and the prison industrial complex... or the huge scam with the covid loans where they just used the money for stock buybacks.
• justinzollars 4y ago
  Governments in the West have grown tremendously. In the United States the footprint of Government is 44% of GDP. 44%! This community is "Hacker News" not "Socialist News" or "Red State". Government should be able to function much better with much less. And it is no Hackers interest for its footprint to continue its endless expansion.
  • EddieDante 4y ago
    You realize that there is a website called Red State and that it's a right-wing propaganda outfit, right? I personally think it's hilarious that the "godless Reds" used to be commies, and now they're Republicans.