Re:US Senate passes sweeping tax overhaul bill
by TAForObvReasons on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:55AM
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To a large extent, the broken parts of US politics stem from the lack of actual written rules. Many things that should be codified are actually "gentlemen's agreements", where people agree to act in good faith. Today's show on the Senate floor was the logical conclusion of an entire political party deciding to break every aspect of that unstated agreement,
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Re:US Senate passes sweeping tax overhaul bill
by delta-v on Saturday December 02, 2017 @05:51AM
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US politics is broken because the majority is being under represented both in Congress and in presidential election.
We should work together on getting rid of the ancient and manipulated election system and revamp it with a modern proportional representative system.
Re:US Senate passes sweeping tax overhaul bill
by riffraff on Saturday December 02, 2017 @04:06AM
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AFAICT, this is the same in most of the world, a lot of the political and government process is based on people acting "properly" beyond the minimal requirements of the law.
There is often a difference between "legal" and "moral", so to say.