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Personally I can understand tariffs on high end goods but taxes on low-end goods or raw materials is insane. Any country doing it has hobbled it's industry for
by minraws 1y ago
Personally I can understand tariffs on high end goods but taxes on low-end goods or raw materials is insane.
Any country doing it has hobbled it's industry for decades and some might prove that they don't work even if you keep these tariffs on for centuries...
But politicians will politic what can we do huh... Really feels like no side, opinion or thought of every day folks matters anywhere.
- K0balt 1y agoI believe it was MIT that ran a study a couple of decades ago that proved that people were unable to influence policy through voting because the effectiveness of lobbying put the vote inputs below the noise floor?
- bluefirebrand 1y agoYup. Our votes basically don't matter because our democracy is captured by lobbyists
- omnimus 1y agoSeems like the votes somehow matter. If Trump didn’t win there wouldn’t be tarifs right?
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoThat's assuming that the voting machines accurately counted the votes and weren't tampered with
- david-gpu 1y agoTom Scott provided an excellent explanation of why electronic voting is a terrible idea. Original: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI Follow-up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoHaven't watched them (yet), but I don't think it's because of the electronic side of things, but more the closed source, black-box nature of the specific devices. It would be possible to design a reasonably secure, open source voting system that would allow voters to validate their votes.
- david-gpu 1y agoHave you had a chance to watch them now? The videos explain why electronic vote counting itself is the problem, not the closed-source black-box nature of any particular devices.