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  1. Once again, a stark reminder of how unserious politicians such as this (anti)socialist can get about their jobs to the extent that they are willing to tolerate a brain drain that benefits friendlier states—and with that a drop in tax revenue.

    reason.com/2026/05/04/seattles

    #bigGovernment #fiscalPolicy #NewYork #Seattle #taxation #WashingtonState

  2. They have warned us repeatedly. From the imperial presidency and a dysfunctional Congress to delegitimizing opponents and gerrymandering, politics matter too much. Way too much. Until Americans put the government back into check, we may as well keep electing people to the position of not the President of the United States, but the Worst Person in the World.

    reason.com/2026/04/29/governme

    #authoritarianism #bigGovernment #democracy #extremism #gerrymandering #POTUS #violence #USCongress #USPolitics

  3. mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1104

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1102

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1098

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1098

    Wenn ich dabei noch weitere Denkanstöße hinzufügen darf, zwar aus den #USA, aber dort ist das Ganze schon viel weiter fortgeschritten:

    "#Republican counterattack against #BigGovernment: the 1971 #LewisPowell "CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM Attack on @mastodon.social @peter_koenig

  4. WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE BIG TOUGH #MAGAts WHO USED TO BANG ON ABOUT "#DontTREADonMe"?
    I thought all those good ol' boys were distrustful of "#BigGovernment" ?
    Where are all those fucking pussies now when we are ALL being trodden on by the #FedGestapo?

  5. What is the difference between government running a grocery store and government owning a share of a semiconductor company? Why would one of these be a good thing and the other not such a good thing?

    #bigGovernment #cronyCapitalism #economicNationalism #economics #groceryStores #horseshoeTheory #Intel #nationalism #socialism

  6. Every “right” you gain comes at the cost of a “liberty” you lose. Where’s the sweet spot that maximises well-being? And what can this tell us about the myth of "Small" government? #Politics #Government #PoliticalPhilosophy #Tariffs #Tax #Policy #BigGovernment #SmallGovernment #Trump

    RIGHTS & LIBERTIES

  7. "The first step may be to finally recognize that “running government like a business” has always been a red herring. The government is not a business — it is the thing that makes business possible. Unregulated markets frequently fail to produce good businesses so long as we define “good” as beneficial to their customers. And unregulated businesses, as we’ve recently been forced to witness, are even worse at producing good government. As the economist Mariana Mazzucato has long argued, the libertarian CEO types now running Washington are willfully ignorant of just how dependent their industries are on the backbone of public services like roads, telecoms, courts and publicly-funded research — services they have enjoyed largely for free since financial liberalization and business tax cuts have allowed them to shelter the vast majority of their profits.

    Step two is much harder: articulating some positive idea of an activist government in the marketplace. For Doctorow, as for many others, this begins with “a very aggressive antitrust agenda” aimed at breaking up the monopolies that have become powerful enough to capture — and try to replace — the federal government under Trump. “You cannot have a referee who is weaker than the players on the field,” he told me.

    “Anti-government nihilism cannot be countered without a defense of the government’s role in daily life.”

    But there are other, more constructive roles the government could play. Doctorow suggested a federal jobs guarantee that would put a meaningful floor on the value of labor. Or a database of publicly funded, patent-free research, which would compel corporations to support interoperability — what Mazzucato has called, in the context of AI, a “decentralized innovation ecosystem that serves the public good.”"

    noemamag.com/the-good-society-

    #USA #NewDeal #PublicAdministration #BigGovernment #PublicPolicy #PublicInterest

  8. A MAGA Trump supporter was left speechless after we dispelled small government big corporation crap.

    A MAGA Trump supporter called to dispute our support for a government big enough that no corporation could attain supremacy. He was left speechless and decided to reevaluate his position.

    #BigGovernment #corporations #KPFT #MAGA #PoliticsDoneRight #smallGovernment

    wp.me/p1OjMZ-nu6

  9. It's bizarre that young dude-bro Republicans are upset about chemicals in our food. They say food in the EU is much better, prepared using different recipes, with less additives.

    #USpol #USpolitics #OrangeFreak #GOPfreaks #FascistTakeover #GOPweirdos #Weird #RFK #Trump #DonOld #Kennedy #BobKennedy #FDA #Regulations #BigGovt #BigGovernment #marker

  10. CW: violent imagery

    @IndyMediaAus
    This article is just bloody brilliant.

    It quickly looks at the successes by #BigGovernment in #Australia in responding to #Covid and areas of failures too.

    And rips the Health Department, #TGA and #ATAGI a new ones for failure to get vaccination happening quickly.

    If you're sick of hearing no-nothings yabba about how the lockdowns were unnecessary then this article gives comparisons with other countries.

    #StrifeOfInterests #AusPol #SmallGovernment

  11. @BlumeEvolution

    #Longtermism #TESCREAL
    #Gesellschaft #Politik
    #Faschismus #Klimakrise
    (3d/n)

    ...und #FriedrichMerz sowie #MarkusSöder diesen
    Theorien anhängen.)

    An den US-Unis wird jedoch m.W. immer noch gelehrt, das der Startschuss des #Republikanischen Gegenangriffs auf #FDR|s und #LBJ|s "#BigGovernment" und die #Bürgerrechtsbewegung auf auf das Jahr 1971 fiel.
    Damals schrieb der kurz darauf als Richter am Obersten US-Bundesgericht (#SupremeCourt) berufene, einflussreiche Jurist,...

  12. CW: US Pol - CDC

    Regardless of the validity of the latest medical care recommendation by the #CDC to individual people, the fact remains they are acting wrongfully in delivering said recommendation.

    The Center For Disease Control holds the purpose set of & it's personnel are at least supposed to be trained & best for collecting, coalating & distributing to medical professionals said data on infectious diseases, so that said professionals can then add that to their knowledge of their clients - be they individual patients or for building designers/builders consultants- in conjunction with OSHA.

    Cheering on or jeering at, their latest out of bounds in it's direct to general public medical care or intervention recommendation thusly misses the point!

    They've even been sued on this & lost in said courtroom,as the complete disintegration of our judiciary apparently hasn't happened yet, when they tried to defend this new practice of theirs, which they've continued to do- including after said lawsuit.

    When a government agency shows such obstinacy that it will not either honor the limits of it's powers by charter after the judiciary has told them of their wrongful spread, it should be abolished in it's entirety,this includes US intelligence agencies

    #BigGovernment #MedicalCare #Laws #USA

  13. If being #ProLife was really about the lives of #children, its supporters would also want the government to cover all the costs of birthing and raising all the kids that #BigGovernment forces to be born to parents who can't afford them.

  14. #Democrats are known for " #biggovernment " telling you what to do. No they are mostly big government telling corporations not to screw you over and let you do what you want to do. Cities HAVE to have have tell you what you can and can't do because you live on top of a bunch of other people so your actions have impacts on many other people. Many times there are rural regulations also there to tell you no so you don't impact others. The #GOP uses that to tell them that the #Dems are telling YOU what to do. Elect us and we will give you more #freedom and stop the #government from telling you what to do an many fell for it. Just like with tax cuts, they will throw the average voter a bone here and there and give the biggest slice of freedom and liberty to the corporations to screw you over as many ways as possible.
  15. The #Republican party is the party of #fascism, #authoritarianism and #BigGovernment. If the voters don't realize this, then they aren't aware of what they're elected officials have been doing and plan to do: #project2025, #Agenda47, #ChristianNationalism.

  16. @SnowshadowII

    #USpol #Economics
    #MAGAnomics #MustReads

    (1/n)

    As I was discussing the "root of all evil" in the #US present-day #Republican political thinking with
    @Jeramee a while back, I had my misgivings about dating the Republican counterattack against #BigGovernment: the 1971 #LewisPowell "CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM Attack on American Free Enterprise System").

    IMO, it was not. It started years earlier, at the latest in 1965,...

    1)
    greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/t

  17. This is the ultimate, or final, conclusion of "the 'government' coming for my guns". However, on the other side, you have the "government" via police officers (and others) executing a warrant to enforce a law. A law, which l presume is simply trying to bring down the chance of violence. Are there any other sides? And if so, whose side are you on?

    wfae.org/crime-justice/2024-04

    #poll #guns #BigGovernment #governmentplease

  18. One of the major obstacles to stopping #climate change is bureaucracy and regulations.

    Almost no one wants to talk about this, but it's almost impossible to install #solar in Washington, it takes years to hook up to a #gird in California, and the US and the EU have _idling_ #renewable power plants that can't get hooked up to the gird.

    The #BigGovernment is as much a barrier as #Capitalism. The dichotomy between empowering one to weaken the other is false.

  19. One of the major obstacles to stopping #climate change is bureaucracy and regulations.

    Almost no one wants to talk about this, but it's almost impossible to install #solar in Washington, it takes years to hook up to a #gird in California, and the US and the EU have _idling_ #renewable power plants that can't get hooked up to the gird.

    The #BigGovernment is as much a barrier as #Capitalism. The dichotomy between empowering one to weaken the other is false.

  20. One of the major obstacles to stopping #climate change is bureaucracy and regulations.

    Almost no one wants to talk about this, but it's almost impossible to install #solar in Washington, it takes years to hook up to a #gird in California, and the US and the EU have _idling_ #renewable power plants that can't get hooked up to the gird.

    The #BigGovernment is as much a barrier as #Capitalism. The dichotomy between empowering one to weaken the other is false.

  21. One of the major obstacles to stopping #climate change is bureaucracy and regulations.

    Almost no one wants to talk about this, but it's almost impossible to install #solar in Washington, it takes years to hook up to a #gird in California, and the US and the EU have _idling_ #renewable power plants that can't get hooked up to the gird.

    The #BigGovernment is as much a barrier as #Capitalism. The dichotomy between empowering one to weaken the other is false.

  22. One of the major obstacles to stopping #climate change is bureaucracy and regulations.

    Almost no one wants to talk about this, but it's almost impossible to install #solar in Washington, it takes years to hook up to a #gird in California, and the US and the EU have _idling_ #renewable power plants that can't get hooked up to the gird.

    The #BigGovernment is as much a barrier as #Capitalism. The dichotomy between empowering one to weaken the other is false.

  23. "Even just talk of a moratorium has already done great damage to our burgeoning best-in-Canada renewable energy industry & our reputation as a place to invest. Short of Danielle Smith declaring renewable energy illegal outright, A clearer example of #BigGovernment dictating winners & losers you'll never find"

    PODCAST: podcastics.com/episode/250741/

    #ClimateTurnedTheCorner #EndTheMoratorium #FireWeather #abpoli #yyc #Yellowknife #Kelowna #ClimateChange #cdnpoli #Wildfires