Re:America has never gone this long without hiking the feder...
by defterGoose on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:16PM
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Yeah, I mean it's not like the Romans had to levy any funds to build roads all over their empire. /s
Re:America has never gone this long without hiking the feder...
by jlawson on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @08:15PM
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We were talking about highways in the sense of the things built in the New Deal.
You're talking about roads.
These are not the same thing and I think you're playing dumb about it (or at least I hope so).
There was no highway funding before the New Deal because there were no highways.
There were wages in 1790. They chose not to implement a minimum wage, but they could have if they wanted.
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Regarding "trickle-down economics", this isn't a real term anyone actually argues for. It's a sneer term created for the purpose of strawmanning libertarian economic positions to make them easy to attack. Not sure why this became such a meme, or how so many people seem to not realize that they're attacking an Emmanuel Goldstein. But it would be good if you stuck to criticizing positions that real people actually hold.