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First, shutting down programs like this is like leaving the lights off in your home because you can't make rent of the mortgage. Saving $0.025 off your energy b
by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
First, shutting down programs like this is like leaving the lights off in your home because you can't make rent of the mortgage. Saving $0.025 off your energy bill is not going to meaningfully help.
Second, it’s at the top because it’s a public good of obviously enormous value that a common shmuck can understand.
- _heimdall 1y agoI guess I'm a common shmuck. What is the public good, and specifically why is it a public good that is so difficult for the free market to provide that the government needs to run and subsidize it?
- jjulius 1y ago>What is the public good... ... in providing a weather forecast?
- avhon1 1y agoIt's not that weather is difficult for markets to provide. It's that it's worthwhile for the government to make it freely available to everyone.
- noboostforyou 1y ago> What is the public good Accurate, scientific information to make informed decisions that can affect your safety and well-being. If you have to drive over a bridge or close to a body of water every day but you know there is a high chance of flooding tomorrow would you still travel to the same high risk area? What do you think is the role of government? To improve the lives of its citizens should be up there, do you agree?
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoPublic services like NWS use a public service model. The idea is literally to provide as comprehensive a service as possible. A private service will provide a profitable service, which will be cut-down, nickel-and-dimed, and generally enshitified for profitability, Financially, the relatively small cost of these public services makes a negligible contribution to taxes while providing huge national benefits.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoAsk all of those people who just drowned in Texas and are complaining that the weather warnings should have been given sooner.
- _heimdall 1y agoIs that a solution only governments can provide? And in that case was the failing at the federal or local level?
- Tadpole9181 1y agoThe failing was local, because the MAGA morons refused federal funding to install alarm systems because it came from Biden (until, of course, they quietly took it and redirected the funds to the Sheriff department). The NWS worked perfectly and they were warned in time.
- noboostforyou 1y agoWhy do you keep asking strangely presumptuous questions without answering the simple, direct questions yourself? Are you honestly interested in discussion or are you more interested in pushing a particular narrative?
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