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This is outrageous. Does Spain have a "Great Firewall" like China?
Every EU country has one, on nation- and on EU-level.
Are you claiming there is a EU-wide firewall that EU could use (not the countries themselves) to block arbitrary websites? The EU hate on HN is reaching conspiracy-type levels now it seems.
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> Well yeah, of course they are. You still owe taxes. When the government reopens the taxes you pay will still be allocated. I think you missed the point. If the government is doing less due to shutdown, taxes should be less.
I didn't miss the point. The point doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The system you propose would create a perverse incentive for obstructionists to shut government down permanently to never pay taxes.
That doesn't make any sense. A politically manufactured government shutdown isn't the only way to reduce government or taxes.
But regardless, fear of poor incentives hasn't stopped us from getting to where we are now. Bad incentives are everywhere. This shutdown itself is the result of bad incentives.
Your argument is the one that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
The percentages should be counting upwards for the departments that are currently operational, instead they are currently static :)
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> they are doing exactly what they were shouting from the rooftops that they would do. You mean lower prices on day 1? Unfortunately some of us still remember those outlandish promises which we knew will remain just promises. Doesn’t matter how much you push his promises under the rug, but we will not forget - how big of a fraud and scammer the current sitting president is. Did they also shout - 51st state, crypto sc…
Yes, they shouted that they would commit fraud and accept bribes. Apparently people are fine with that and voted for it.
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Trump seems to have no inhibitions about his posts. To be fair though, this shutdown was brought about by Congress. The Senate has not approved a bill, so the POTUS has nothing to sign.
The President typically has a lot of influence over party members in normal times, the Republican sychopants who are in Congress now will do whatever he says. A bipartisan border bill was killed before Trump even got re-elected[0] simply because he didn't want it passed. 0: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-b...
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i'd say go tell the felon(s) in the white house, but they're currently busy having a gold-encrusted ball room built
He's also busy shitposting AI slop videos[1] of himself. Man's got to have priorities. 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_post...
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Every EU country has one, on nation- and on EU-level.
> and on EU-level Are you claiming there is a EU-wide firewall that EU could use (not the countries themselves) to block arbitrary websites? The EU hate on HN is reaching conspiracy-type levels now it seems.
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Yes, they shouted that they would commit fraud and accept bribes. Apparently people are fine with that and voted for it.
Nope! They definitely didn’t say that! Doesn’t matter how much people from your tribe try to normalize it, that wouldn’t happen.
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A failure like this would immediately trigger reelections in the UK. It's a strong incentive to not shut down the government. There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In fact, you're incentivised to be complicit in the shutdown and then blame the other party.
In general, this is by design in The States. The system is setup to prevent political opportunism and provide predictability and rigidity of the system at the expense of being slower to respond to constituents. The incentive is still there, it’s just a few years off in the next election. (That being said… sighing loudly as he gestures around him at all the political opportunism…)