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Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by CodeMage on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:41PM (#46978938)
Every time I hear an argument like this one, it's always phrased in terms of "the government is greedy and/or incompetent, therefore taxes are bad" and never in terms of "the government is greedy and/or incompetent, therefore our systems of controlling our government are not good enough".
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Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by mlrtime on Sunday February 15, 2026 @06:56AM (#47023020)
I didn't actually say they are greedy or incompetent.

Government starts a new program and funds it with taxes. First, it is difficult to prove if the program is doing what it set out to do effectively. Second, there is 0 incentive to ever shut it down. The people working there don't want to, the group who started it also don't want to. The people funding it have 0 insight or say if it should continue.

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