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Re:America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Eco... by InkCanon on Thursday February 19, 2026 @12:18PM (#47076277)
Yes. Bluntly put, the government maximizes residence of high net worth individuals, and a 37% forced purchase of low interest bonds would be outrageous to them.
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Re:America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Eco... by eru on Thursday February 19, 2026 @07:31PM (#47081988)
Also Singapore is reasonably good about applying paternalism mostly to the poor.

(I say, mostly, because they still don't allow rich people to take arbitrary drugs. Unless you count getting a doctor to give you a prescription.)

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