Budgets should be balanced, with smart long term planning and sensible spending. We should not resort to a special “billionaire tax” to fund our mismanaged budgets.

When our high speed rail runs out of funds (and triples in costs with little to show for it), do we slap another billionaire tax? When homeless spending goes missing and doesn’t make a dent, do we add another tax? When cal fair plan goes insolvent?

And then when they’re all gone, we go after the hundred millionaires.

This isn’t the solution. The solution is to fix tax loopholes, that generate sustainable income; with spending that is long term balanced and based on realistic interest rates.

Politicians generally don’t try to solve these hard long term problems, but put up short term patches that are incredibly harmful for the state.

Its very evident in his statement, he's trying very hard to clarify what that list means for corporations and downstream business with large commercial and strategic companies.

Imagine if Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc decided that they don't want to ANY sort of minuscule risk (real or perceived) to their massive public sector business lines (via all their DoD DoJ NHS and other 3 letter agencies, state agencies, city and local municipals etc) - and decide to cancel their enterprise Anthropic licenses - which is a VERY possible scenario.

And these are the big players, theres a whole slew of medium and small players all with existing government contracts that need to tread carefully.

Compare that to something like the California High Speed Rail, or our every 4 year tug of war for elections (and mid term elections). Everything is short sighted "wins" for the next reelection, of one party vs another party, instead of making actual progress.

Its almost like when there is a good benevolent leadership in charge, for a long term, then progress comes much faster. (Singapore, China, ?)

also, hi there! (da from oblong)

If only the big scams are being caught (and we don't know what % are being caught), there's likely a lot more going undetected.

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Here we are 8 years after they finished a different project with nothing. American infrastructure at its finest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF#Modern_era

You can replace "insurance" with any other business, the whole of capitalism is built upon this. Every stock on the stock market is trying to "provide returns to their investors" - each one is as guilty as the next - theres nothing special about insurance companies.

If the argument is that insurance should be a federally provided service, then we must have a different conversation. Look at the FAIR plan. They are government created, and will get wiped out because of these fires, possibly because they weren't charging enough to begin with (and taxpayers will now need to bail them out). The math doesn't change whether its state backed or privately backed. If a home, on average, gets burned down every X years, then the insurance premium needs to be adjusted to be able to cover that.

And here is the crux of the problem - if you take away the free market aspect of being able to adjust prices, and get forced to sell a product/service for less than what you need to, there will be a loss somewhere, in this order of operations:

1. loss at the insurance company --> insurance company goes broke or leaves the state

2. loss at the FAIR plan --> FAIR plan reserves get wiped out

3. loss at the state level --> taxpayers need to bail the situation out.

Id argue that letting the free market work (at layer 1 above) is the proper way about it. If a house burns down every 10 years, let insurance charge 10% of that cost, because that is the actual risk involved in the system. House prices will naturally come down to reflect that reality of risk.

HFT in My Backyard

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354278

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371852

some more fun and short reading:

Report on an Unidentified Space Station by J. G. Ballard https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm

The Last Question By Isaac Asimov https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

really cool to see the trajectory:

- earth mars gravity assists

- complex trajectory around jupiter and its moons

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