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Joseph Sadove's avatar

Broadband in USA, etc.:

A lot of this is blame-the-government and plain anti-government nonsense. The biggest problem is our atomized governing structure coupled with the extreme legalistic overlay. The “process” problem is a direct result of this. And when you layer on top a disempowerment, distrust and underfunding of the state as core USA ideology to take initiative, there you have it.

The legal labyrinth is a function of our overly litigious society and the "mistrust government" ideology.

Governments in good old socialist Europe don't have such problems and hence their airports, their rail, their highways, their bridges, their utilities, their schools, their medical delivery, food safety, their industry, etc. CRUSH OURS.

And on the bottom of this stack supporting all this excellence and higher performance is one thing: high progressive taxation.

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Matt Jamison's avatar

In Trump's longform interview with Rogan, he spent quite a bit of time on this issue.

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