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Reflecting on Marshall Plan, it strikes me that distasteful as it might seem to both sides, Blue America needs to craft a Marshall unPlan for Red America to avert a Cold War. It’s an 1830-project Jacksonian honor society that feels humiliatingly dependent on blue tax dollars.
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Next pandemic live read. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil amazon.com/Marshall-Plan-
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I've read that analysis of relative government payouts, but it seems to rely on government payouts to retirees, which really doesn't speak to that dependence or the economies of the red/blue states. For one, it ignores private transfers of wealth, as happens continuously w/food
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Very indirectly; ag subsidies keep the market even; it doesn't pay for farmers to larp as individualists, it pays to keep their production in reserve as the market demands; just like power production. Respectfully, I think you speak from the same ignorance you project on them.
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