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What if, instead of all of us paying in order to have a car industry, we take that tax money and pay to an ecological restoration industry or functioning health
by culi 9mo ago
What if, instead of all of us paying in order to have a car industry, we take that tax money and pay to an ecological restoration industry or functioning healthcare industry or whatever. Have you seen the map of superfund sites? Statistically speaking, you are almost certainly living within 10 miles of a superfund
https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=33cebcdfdd1b4c3a8b51d416956c41f1 https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...
There is a LOT of other work we could be doing if we stopped trying to uphold existing uncompetitive industries
- ewjt 9mo agoTransportation is like farming and yielding ownership of critical industries gives foreign adversaries too much leverage. I’m with you though. If humans could just get along we could build an amazing world.
- culi 9mo agoJapan, India, Germany, Mexico, etc all have massive auto manufacturing industries. If we're at war with all of those countries at the same time then maybe we deserve what's coming China only became an auto industry power house in the 00s.
- bonsai_spool 9mo agoI wonder if the argument turns on Michigan being a helpful state in presidential elections - many other parts of the Midwest have lost their former industry and fallen on hard times.
- hammock 9mo agoThat sounds to me like spending money to fix broken windows, rather than building our own windows (and not buying the old windows that were always breaking)