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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by SiempreViernes on Saturday July 30, 2022 @04:05PM (#32289816)
I mean, a trillion spent is a trillion spent: it'll trickle down regardless of how you spend it, the question is if you could have spent it some other way that would have given more jobs?
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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by patmcc on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:55AM (#32293285)
A trillion spent building factories, highways, public housing, schools, etc. may employ exactly as many people as a trillion spent building weapons, dropping bombs, and killing people.

What you end up with after spending that trillion is a bit different though.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by denton-scratch on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:37AM (#32295103)
> it'll trickle down regardless of how you spend it

That's an article of conservative dogma dating from the Reagan and Bush eras, and it's pretty-much discredited now. For most major capital expenditure programmes, the majority of the money trickling down stops trickling once it reaches shareholders and executives.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by namdnay on Saturday July 30, 2022 @05:18PM (#32290436)
It was Bush - if it hadn’t been spent on Iraq it would have gone straight to tax cuts for the upper brackets.

We’re talking about the guy who managed to tank the worlds healthiest budget

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by MisterMower on Saturday July 30, 2022 @10:18PM (#32292549)
I thought we were talking a miniature nuclear reactor…
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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by Jenk on Saturday July 30, 2022 @05:59PM (#32290773)
Not if it is stashed away secretly avoiding tax and other contributions to society.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/07/23/super...

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