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Re:Marc Andreessen interview by take_a_breath on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:06PM (#23519351)
== For the US to provide Schools/Hospitals/Houses services comparable to the European countries it would be done at the State level.==

The tax structure of the US makes it very hard for states to provide this as so much of our tax dollars go to the Fed. Then, as a blue state resident, a bunch of those Federal taxes go to poorer states. We could do a lot with the ~$4 billion annually we pay in taxes that go to other states.

== At the Federal level it is to some degree unprecedented to provide services at the level of quality and at the scale.==

Medicare? US military? Us postal services? And on and on.

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Re:Marc Andreessen interview by chrisco255 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:10PM (#23520424)
When I look at the California high speed bullet train project, that has been over a decade in progress and has cost over $75 billion and still nowhere near completion... I see the real problem with just throwing money blindly at every problem.
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Re:Marc Andreessen interview by take_a_breath on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:57PM (#23520807)
Has anyone made that proposal?
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