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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
4. Repeal McCarran Ferguson to allow insurers to pool nationally (lowering ins. costs in numerous areas)
5. Cut off fed subsidies of all kinds to states that use license acquisition as a cash machine (licensing endeavors that needn’t be licensed to placate local protectionist interests and mine fee income for the state);
6. Shut down every agency rendered redundant by UBI (give people more cash and put useless middlemen on UBI themselves rather than stealth white collar welfare);
7. INFRASTRUCTURE BILL
8. Bankruptcy relaxation (allow modification of primary mortgages and allow discharge of up to 50% of student loans)
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You ran out of ideas after 3. It's not that 4, 5 and 8 are necessarily bad, they're just pointless. If UBI is a good idea, then 6 is pointless because it doesn't make much redundant. No one opposes 7 except Republicans who don't like taxes, but the challenge is to spend money in a way that really improves things.
You complain a lot about the poverty of Democratic ideas to create jobs, but you don't have any of your own, unless 7 means hiring people to build stuff, which Democrats like.
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I can be exceedingly generous. Bernie-like. But where you and I differ is you want things managed. You believe in allegedly smart managers. I believe in smart policies. I think smart wonky managers of the ilk you desire are usually the road to hell in the policy arena because most govt folk have never managed shit, never made a payroll. They’re not serious people. They just sound like it.
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I'm not sure why you think I "want things managed," whatever that means. But you're just saying stupid stuff like this because you'd rather bitch than find solutions to problems.
