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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by ericd on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:31PM (#50487718)
Haha thanks for the unexpected Sesame Street :-)

Yeah, I'm generally onboard for higher top tax rates, some additional higher brackets, and higher tax on investment income, ideally paired with lowered rates on the lower brackets/higher standard deduction. This would hit me, but I think we need it to avoid some of the more extreme populist futures.

But we also really need to fix spending, especially procurement, the amount of wealth that we're collectively being cheated out of via terrible government contracts is staggering, there's a large network of extremely inefficient businesses that live off of the federal govt. Also, the medical system, though my understanding is that Medicare is generally getting a better deal than private insurers.

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by danaris on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:47PM (#50487953)
I'm fully onboard with being careful about government contracts—indeed, many of those terrible contracts are deliberately so; they're part of the corruption that's funneling money from the many to the few.

But 99% of the time, if you say "reduce spending", everyone, on both sides of the aisle, will hear "stop helping people", which is deeply counterproductive, as well as being cruel.

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by ericd on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:06PM (#50488245)
I think people have been trained to hear it as "stop helping people" by people who really don't want to decrease spending.