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In Reply to: RE: Well then there's some work to be done posted by Goober58 on September 05, 2024 at 14:30:57
The PA General Assembly whooped through a bill allowing longwall mining without much debate. That was 30 years ago.
Result? Massive surface subsidence. Destroyed watersheds. Homes ruined, including historic structures. Mining companies were supposed to make good, but you know how that goes. "Don't like the compensation we're offering? Sue us."
A major highway was undermined, fixed at taxpayer expense.
Meanwhile, a bill to legalize marijuana for recreational use has languished in the legislature for well over a decade even though it has bi-partisan support and the last three governors said they'd sign it.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 09/06/24 09/06/24Follow Ups:
Saw a study on legislative action and it's pretty clear regardless of public opposition the majority of legislation addressing specific industry or business issues get through and quickly. Legislation addressing public issues, no matter how great the public support, usually go no where.
The tie in with trickle down economics is obvious. The return on lobbying dollars brings a better return than R&D and new product development. Imagine being able to achieve record profits year in and year out with lobbying, replacing workers with technology and reducing workforce (increasing productivity).
With all the tax cut cash they didn't turn America into the high tech mecca we were promised it would become. They maximized their take of the money and in fact invested in replacing workers not creating new jobs. Who would have though profit makers would do anything else?
In 1980 when this stuff (Reagan's tax reforms) happened owning a home was something almost anyone with a steady job and a decent income could do. In the 2020s the wealthy speculators who've benefited with millions and millions of additional dollars are now buying up affordable housing so as to rent it back to us or worse tear it down and put up apartments for us to live in. Home ownership has been the foundation upon which most working Americans could achieve financial security. It's slipping away.
In California, at least.
The sad reality is that with the exception of the period from 1933 until 1981, our government has always been a tool for money interests, lobbying notwithstanding. The one percenters wrote the US Constitution and the main goal was to protect their own property. It's why people like you and I weren't granted suffrage.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 09/07/24
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