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Ryan Cooper: It's a question of political ideology. There's the hypocrisy of Manchin questioning bills like infrastructure while blindly voting to spend so much money on the military.
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Ryan Cooper: Another problem is our healthcare system. If we had Canada's health system, our taxes would go down. On top of that, we pay deductibles, copays, coinsurance. What we can't afford is the status quo.
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Ryan Cooper: It seems like we're back to the Lochner Doctrine on the Supreme Court. If Democrats are for it, it's unconstitutional.
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Ryan Cooper: The other subtext is that if the gov't is reaching into your pocket, that money goes to Other People, like with the Obamaphone.
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Ryan Cooper: We need to rethink taxes. It's not the gov't reaching into your pocket, it's how we pay for things collectively, esp. for things we can't afford on our own. Taxes & the welfare state are catering to your own personal needs to help each other.
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Ryan Cooper: You're looking at companies that sent substantial numbers of jobs overseas by free trade agreements passed by the gov't. It's a very brutal system we've created. All the extra capacity went into profit.
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Ryan Cooper: I was reading a book about production during WWII; the gov't told the steel companies their prices were too high--lower them or we'll nationalize them. Prices were lowered.
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Rick: For 100 years the US was top in manufacturing in the world, and in almost no time at all, we lost that. Americans have been left out in the cold. I'm hoping at some point we reset the whole Reaganomics thing.
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Rick: We have the power to dictate the economy. Union jobs with goods made here in the U.S.
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Ryan Cooper: When Reagan says gov't is the problem, that's a non sequitur. The gov't is always there. It always has been & always will be.
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Check out Ryan Cooper's book, How Are YOU Going to Pay for That?
us.macmillan.com/books/97812502…
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