Too many law suits and Politics
Now just imagine what we could do without people suing to protect bugs, birds, etc?
As the DEMs choose to argue over the details of the current proposal...
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13 comments:
Imagine ecosystems collapsing because people like you don't understand the importance of natural things.
Moose
Well good, we will protect insects, swamps, trees and animals but you will have no green friendly high speed rail.
And we will route the SW Light Rail away from where the people live because some homeowners threaten to sue...
At least the lawyers get rich on infrastructure projects. :-) Did you read the article?
No...your obnoxious remark said everything.
We're in our current predicament because we haven't cared for our environment, and you're irritated that people want to care for things that could disappear for ever.
The loss of a single insect could destroy an ecosystem. I know you don't get it.
Moose
I personally am indifferent to if you save the insect, build light rail, build high speed rail, protect the tree, save the old house, save the wolves, stop the pipeline, artificially inflate the wage of workers, etc.
The simple reality is that we will have fewer infrastructure improvements that cost more.
Where as China will have great hydro-electric dams, lots of high speed rail, mag lev trains, etc.
Choices choices.
Yes, choices.
Have a planet that supports life....or doesn't.
Moose
From that perspective, I thought JOB 1 is cutting emissions and energy use...
That for better or worse means big infrastructure changes. Do you prefer to save a certain endangered frog or prevent global warming and save humans, frogs, everything?
They're not mutually exclusive
Moose
Not perfectly, but if costs go up for any reason... Number of projects goes down...
Unless you have some extra money to toss into the pot.
Interests are simply too entrenched.
I am close to finishing a long but excellent TV course from "The Great Courses" on the French Revolution. One of the many issues leading to the revolution was the seigneural system of rents and charges. Basically, peasants paid rent to aristocrats, and had done that for generations. Looking at that system today, that made no sense, but it must have to them perhaps because that was the only system they had ever known. Eventually, that system just wore down, but there was no peaceful way of replacing that. So what did replace it was the French Revolution.
I wonder if we are in a similar position today. We can't do things, maintain or replace infrastructure because just too many people have to be paid off. We have a system of government that can't seem to do anything but block it's replacement. We can't adequately respond to predictable pandemics, while the evidence of global warming is more important every day. And yet nothing happens.
--Hiram
Hiram,
That is somewhat true, however in this case it is the peasants who are tying the hands of the government. It is hard to update your home when you have almost no discretionary income because you have too many dependents.
Maybe its time to cut off some of those adults who should be paying their own way.
Things aren't quite as stark as they were in 1789 in France. Back then, the religious and the wealthy paid no taxes, and the rest of the population paid all of them. One difference is that today, the wealthy pay just a little bit more than nothing, and their cheating sometimes gets caught when they run for president. The tdheory back then for not taxing the rich was the same trickle down theory we hear today. Back then it was argued, the more you taxed the rich, the less brocade and laced would be bought and sold. Today, the argument goes, if we taxed the rich, they would take fewer rides on rocket ships. There is a logic to that, I suppose.
--Hiram
I am pretty sure the wealthy are paying thousands of times what you do...
Just their property taxes and sales taxes are huge.
I am pretty sure the Kings did not pay for their castle or its taxes.
I was at lest mildly surprised that many of the uber wealthy manage to pay no income taxes at all in certain years. I have never had a year as an adult in which I pay no income taxes.
--Hiram
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