g5000
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- Nov 26, 2011
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should we insist on better capital management from our elected representatives?Gimme my Obamaphone and make that guy over there pay for it.
Gimme my mortgage interest deduction, and make that guy over there pay for it.
Gimme my employer health benefit exemption, and make that guy over there pay for it.
Whose fault is it we have so much debt? That guy over there, of course!
In exchange for campaign contributions, our elected representatives legislatively tilt the playing field to the advantage of the highest bidders.
To unfuck all of this, we need to make several changes. Chief among them, we need to decentralize power as much as possible to make it more difficult to capture, and we need to ban all tax expenditures.