Re:Seattle Poised to Repeal Tax on Amazon and Large Employers
by gameswithgo on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:26AM
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>they have no incentive at all to spend the money wisely
This is very obviously not correct
>Further, when discussing politics, giving money to politicians leads to corruption, kickbacks, and other waste.
Thus we should give no money to governments at all! What societies have flourished under this ethos in human history?
>Finally, politicians have shown time and again they are awful businessme
So are many businessmen! 9 of 10 startups fail. Humans are not good at things. The success of a project depends less on whether it is run by a government or a private enterprise, and more on who is running it and how good of a job they do. NASA landed men on the moon when computers were made of cheese, they have been landing robots on mars successfully more recently, the roads get built, we drive on them, europe is smashing atoms in a huge collider learning how the universe works, the police have kept order, the US military stopped the nazis.
This is very obviously not correct
>Further, when discussing politics, giving money to politicians leads to corruption, kickbacks, and other waste.
Thus we should give no money to governments at all! What societies have flourished under this ethos in human history?
>Finally, politicians have shown time and again they are awful businessme
So are many businessmen! 9 of 10 startups fail. Humans are not good at things. The success of a project depends less on whether it is run by a government or a private enterprise, and more on who is running it and how good of a job they do. NASA landed men on the moon when computers were made of cheese, they have been landing robots on mars successfully more recently, the roads get built, we drive on them, europe is smashing atoms in a huge collider learning how the universe works, the police have kept order, the US military stopped the nazis.