Why do bad ideas seem to keep winning?
From crony Ukraine aid, to money printing, to denying the concept of meritocracy, to so so many things.
This weekend I was talking with a friend and we were discussing the state of the world as we always do. And the question was raised; “Why doesn’t common sense, just good sense ever seem to win these days?
It seems wise to keep taxes low so that people will be incentivized to create wealth. Yet we continue to raise taxes.
It seems unwise to print money and pour it into an economic system that is starting to teeter (thanks to our insane national debt - sorry folks but that debt will have ramifications, even if we somehow continue to retain world reserve currency status) in a way that we have not seen before. Yet we print and print.
It seems unwise to give Ukraine $61 billion which will partly be flat out stolen, will partly go to fund connected American and European defense companies, and which will facilitate more death and put the world at much greater risk of global war. Yet Congress just took your money and gave it to deeply corrupt Kiev because some people who don’t know better (and some who do) keep yelling that if we don’t Putin will roll tanks into Berlin. (He can’t even project out of the Donbas which is on his border.)
It seems unwise to give the security agencies an increased ability to surveil Americans and to poke into American business people’s lives. Yet with the passage of Section 702 of FISA last week the House (a Republican led House, it must be said ) did just that.
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