2024 tea leaves?

SteveFoerster · May 5, 2022

nosborne48 said: ↑

Also true.
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Well... "money machine go brrr" it is!

Flelmo · May 5, 2022

nosborne48 said: ↑

Actually, I think it does for the most part. You have to sift through all the posturing and pandering but one way or another Congress keeps the government funded and leaves popular programs alone or expands them. The dysfunction we hear about is mostly the noise the media emphasizes for its readership/audience. Look for example at the funding for the Covid response under Trump and Biden. ObamaCare, which is overwhelmingly popular, is still with us as are Social Security and Medicare. No one expects these programs to fail for lack of funding let alone be repealed; the only real issue is how soon Congress will quit shouting and start doing stuff.

Governance by indirect representative democracy doesn't mean always doing whatever the polls say a majority wants. But doing unpopular things usually gets put off as long as possible which is an expensive habit. Right now, we really need a tax hike. Nothing would do more (say some economists which I am not) to tame inflation than raising taxes. We have a ballooning debt that's going to get more expensive to service in the near future. But tax hikes are really, really unpopular so Congress will continue to skate close to the edge of the fiscal cliff.
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We just have different philosophies on what a government is supposed to do then. Thanks for the honest response.

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