rIcH pEopLe ShoULd jUsT paY mOrE tAxeS sO goV cAN fIX cOviDhttps://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1250945412460163072 …
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that the good ol' boy arrangements persist shouldn't surprise you, but it should probably piss you off a little bit more than it did in peacetime
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to be 100% clear, the US government has more than enough *money* to rush vaccine/treatment development, build factories en masse, test imported supplies what it lacks is general capacity, organizational flexibility & incentives downstream of the stupid pretty faces we elect
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Good way to put it. Sad to see that if we just set covid incentive bonus goals for politicians this would've played out differently. "Fewer than X deaths and you get Y campaign donations" could've prevented the lack of response.
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The government can't do everything. The free market will do what it does best, develop vaccines, tests and drugs. The government will do what it does best, give money to the rich and well connected, while slowing down the private sector.
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Tax farmers have to optimize the balance between obtaining maximum yield from their herd and avoiding armed rebellion. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it!
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There are simple proposals for getting around this. The below is one example, but more generally, structuring policy to deal with institutional limits and power structures so that it is implementable is a big part of what good public policy is about.https://twitter.com/davidmanheim/status/1245810066843983872 …
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Yes, we know. Beat the horse any harder it’ll be a bottle of glue. And conflating whether 11% is a fair tax rate for a guy making 30 mil/year & govt incompetence is so intellectually disingenuous it should be the top comment in a YouTube video about how 5G causes coronavirus.
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