Senate passes bill to provide benefits to individuals and small businesses

Re:Senate passes bill to provide benefits to individuals and... by tathougies on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:25PM (#22623002)

> What I'm saying is the US is adopting more socialist ideas, and it's spreading the tax dollars around to more and more citizens in more types of ways, like the rest of the developed world has been doing for decades very successfully.

Rubbish. The Defense production act invoked today is from WWII and extremely limited in scope. After the crisis is over the government will be forced to give up these powers. And thank goodness. This is no way to run a free country in normal times.

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Re:Senate passes bill to provide benefits to individuals and... by grecy on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:09PM (#22624031)

> And thank goodness. This is no way to run a free country in normal times

I take it you're aware of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and virtually ALL the other developed countries on the planet who function this way every day of the year and do very well.

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Re:Senate passes bill to provide benefits to individuals and... by tathougies on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:16AM (#22624421)

Australia, Canada, and New Zealand don't have the same kinds of guarantees on freedom the United States does, frankly. I don't know much about the other three's laws and can't comment.

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Re:Senate passes bill to provide benefits to individuals and... by grecy on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:34AM (#22628420)

Now I'm genuinely curious, as I lived 23 years in Australia. What freedoms are you talking about?

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