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I'd happily divorce from the South in order to join Schengen with Canada. The South offers nothing of value.
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Wish we could. I want the US and Canada to join Schengen someday.
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Many expensive policies, health insurance, pensions, education, even the military, could fairly easily be brought down to the state level. Many states would be better off with such a model!
But not FEMA. FEMA needs to always stay with the federal government. No one would win.
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Fortunately California has already abolished the death penalty and LGBTQI rights are up to international standards. Food safety however is managed by the federal government.
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The ban on asylum seekers working is a failed New Labour era policy designed to manage public opposition to free movement that just ruins towns. A terrible appendix in our system.
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Basically, who is the best mayor of an American city and why is she obviously Michelle Wu of Boston...
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Just looked at the new mayor of San Francisco.
He wants to use police to deal with drug addiction and campaigns on tough-on-crime policies.
But at least he wants to also build homeless shelters and increase housing...
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His values are abhorrent. His policies are hurting America and benefiting our allies.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t realize that Trump used our own playbook against us.
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As long as you don’t have most of the keys against you, this strategy will pan out. Convince voters that you will make their lives better. Downplay the accomplishments of your opponent. Stress their failures.
Then you win.
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His strategy, fighting in every state, reaching out to voters and expanding your margins in your base so your voters don’t stay home…
This isn’t a Republican strategy, Democrats have used it in the past.
This is historically the dominant strategy in American political campaigns.
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Trump should be in jail. For once he's right. He is the agitator.
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Once you piece it together it is all so blatant.
Trump is a danger to the country. He must be removed from office.
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The special deals giving government grants to private companies for private investment is impossible to compete against in an era when CPUs are more expensive and the tax cuts for R&D are essentially gone.
He goes through and has Elon Musk end what enforcement we have to root our white collar crime.
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Those two factors led to California becoming the most productive place on the planet in the latter half of the twentieth century. It created a vibrant and diverse tech sector unlike anywhere else on the planet.
Trump is undoing as much of it as he can.
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There are two main reasons why Silicon Valley is in California.
California invested heavily in education, so California has the labor.
Non-compete contracts are illegal, so you can easily leave your current company and start your own company.
Nowhere else on Earth is like this.
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Do not ever trust any politician who talks about bringing jobs back home through political favors while making the factor inputs more expensive.
It’s corruption, plain and simple, and it makes an unfair playing field.
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Why would you build a server farm in the United States with high tariffs on CPUs when you could just build it in Canada and not have to pay that 100% surcharge on the components? That doesn’t make sense.
This administration is extremely corrupt.
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He and other populists keep going on about how they want to bring chip manufacturing at home. They want America to be the global pioneer in “AI” giving large bonuses to specific companies with political connections.
But at the same time they make it very expensive to import CPUs.
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Free trade didn’t destroy your job.
Expensive factor inputs and increased taxes on businesses killed your job.
I’m not opposed to a careful approach to increasing taxes on highly profitable companies.
But eliminating deductions for wages is self-destructive.