loopedcandle

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loopedcandle ,

First Robot Teenage Werewolf President

I'm ready to serve.

loopedcandle ,

I am libertarian-ish, but generally don't like all the loud libertarian nuts (I register Dem and vote Dem because the things I care about aren't represented anywhere on the ballot anymore).

For me, it comes to a very simple economics truism: Governments are pretty damn inefficient and tend to waste a lot of money because of the process and bureaucracy. Markets on the other hand, tend to be really efficient at allocating capital when left alone. The times a government should step in is when the market has created a form of externality that breaks things. The old economics example is the people downstream from a chemical plant are paying the price for the plant's pollution.

From a libertarian lens:

  • The government should negotiate SPH b.c. it's obvious that markets failed and we'd all be better off (spend less money) if everyone had healthcare.
  • The government should stay out of people's bedrooms and love lives, it has no business there.
  • The government should use UBI and then eliminate every other deduction, and tax break, and subsidy (Social Sec, . The office running UBI could be one guy sending checks out once a month (exaggerated obvi)

Unfortunately the things I'd like to see from a libertarian don't actually show up.

loopedcandle ,

Oh man, have a link to the recording you're referencing?

loopedcandle ,

It's not a simple issue. It is very complicated. Permitting, real estate, time to build, construction offsets, battery needs (solar's weakest point likely).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

I'm more of a let's do both, and we'll everything we can, kinda guy.

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