And governments do that because electorates like to vote for governments that give them concrete goodies in the short term, even if the cost is some vague blowback in future decades. After all, it mi… (View Post)

Issue isn't so much the numbers as their meaning- the move to reduce income taxes, especially their headline rates, has been a steady one for most of my life. So it's not surprising that in… (View Post)

One other thing. The clock is ticking for Rayner, Burnham and Streeting. They're the leading heavyweights now (ha!), but quite possibly won't be in 2027/8. If they, or their "friends&q… (View Post)

Though if my screwups left me sitting pretty while everyone else pays the price, I'd probably be pretty hubristic as well. And I'm lovely in a way that Trump isn't. (View Post)

It's probably true of most attempts to "take out the head"; it's easy to destroy an individual if you are ruthless enough, it's much much harder to destroy an idea. (View Post)