Because if there’s one thing that the neocon wing of the Republican Party has proven itself to be really good at, it’s planning.

I don’t understand why people always assume that reduced drug prices in the US won’t result in increased prices elsewhere. None of this happens in a vacuum, and it’s not our job to subsidize drug costs for the rest of the developed world*.

Yep.

Many thoughts to be had for sure:

Not this close to the election and probably not any time during Trump’s first time.  The short term impact on the federal deficit would hurt turnout.

There’s always the public option route.  Offer a public option and just make steadily harder to compete with.  Let private insurance companies broker it and manage it in exchange for being regulated.  

a huge reduction in the profitability of the pharmaceutical industry.

The German American Bund is an interesting organization to think about in times like these. I think what happened with them certainly belies a lot of things you hear people say in defense of things like internment and in defense of the theory of the “paradox of intolerance”.

if a firm has more money than it knows what to do with, then it should increase the compensation of its rank and file employees, starting with those who make the least

He purged all the real socialists, but he definitely ran with the whole “let’s nationalize a bunch of crap” theme going on in that platform in order to fund his war effort.

Dallas is a shitty city for the most part.

is literally trickle-down economics.

And if the United States were a sparsely populated country with the seat of it’s power a long ways away from the border, those fears probably wouldn’t be entirely without merit.

. No one really knows anything anymore, aside from the fact that it sure as hell doesn’t hurt candidates to have the backing of labor.

The whole thing sort of cracks me up.

In some cases, but it can’t be the bulk of it because despite hundreds of billions of dollars of buybacks over the last several years the level of investment in our economy is still healthy.

I am not advocating for trickle down economics in the slightest.

not actually investing in improving their products or services.

Yep. If public shaming is, like “a thing” that we say is cool, then the fact is that everyone is going to feel free to do it, and they’re going to do it for their own reasons and with their own standards of what deserves mob Twitter outrage.

Maybe.