throwaway_kufu

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by throwaway_kufu 6y ago
> Mandatory shut downs, in the absence of financial assistance, is arguably a “taking” under the constitution False, government does this to businesses all the time and compensation isn’t due. Take hurricanes in Florida and mandatory sh
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by throwaway_kufu 6y ago
By that measure tons of people had their private property taken...PPP just picked the winners of the taxpayer bailout. And no, government ordered shutdowns are not taking of private property, it’s done all the time for Natural disasters And
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by throwaway_kufu 6y ago
Taxpayers owe businesses nothing, if a business can’t survive 8 weeks without a taxpayer bailout then it’s a bad investment and at this scale it is a fundamental weakness of the entire economy that should be fixed not propped up with taxpay
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by throwaway_kufu 6y ago
Why should taxpayers have bailed out businesses that couldn’t keep employees on payroll though? There is no end in sight to either corona virus or the economic downturn, so it’s just throwing 8 weeks worth of taxpayer money into bad investm
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Lawmakers secured millions in PPP loans(politico.com)
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by throwaway_kufu 6y ago
> The post you're responding to literally links an SAA magazine section wholly devoted to rebutting just one of Hancock's books. I didn’t say there weren’t rebuttals. I didn’t even say he wasn’t a crank, only you can’t exactly
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by throwaway_kufu 6y ago
> It's not fair to expect people to do extensive rebuttals of every crank out there. Yeah but this isn’t just any “crank” out there, in this case it happens to be someone who is more famous and well known for their ideas than the va
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by throwaway_kufu 6y ago
Honestly between Graham Hancock and John Anthony West I no longer know what is what. At least with Egypt it seems to be this great divide between the Official Egyptian Archeologists historical timeline and these relatively new ideas of an