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[–] finitebanjo 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If we're moving on from hypotheticals then it seems like welfare state approaches were far more effective when put into practice than things like the USSR.

[–] Snowclone 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah for a while the work tax credit and child tax credit was my main income It paid more than my job, and a lot of corporate stock trade types like Warren Buffet advocated that was the solution to the capitalist problem of long term income stagnation and inequality, but it's not around anyone, I can't expect it to work after any election, and it is easy to lose it every four years. It doesn't work not because of the factual outcome, it doesn't work because it's temporary and under constant attack. Unless we get laws that can't be ended or argued without a very high majority of the legislator AND the states, can't be thrown out by a renegade supreme court, or hand waved by executive orders, then it's not worth the paper it's printed on.

[–] finitebanjo 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Every solution is always going to be under constant attack.

[–] Snowclone 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You might be right. I just wish my civil rights and functional economy weren't debatable