valdemar81
3mo ago
Seems fixable by better defining it as a "line item", not "arbitrary subset of words" veto ... until the legislature gets the bright idea of making the entire bill one long line item.
valdemar81
3mo ago
This isn't even a hypothetical: there are currently 42 national emergencies in effect, though thankfully the COVID one did end on April 10, 2023.
Yes and yes. It's very common for presidents to issue last-minute pardons, and Trump was no exception.
In his last full day in office, Trump granted 143 pardons and commutations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Donald_Trump#Chronology
Furthermore,
A federal pardon can be issued prior to the start of a legal case or inquiry, prior to any indictments being issued, for unspecified offenses, and prior to or after a conviction for a federal crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States#Modern_process
valdemar81
5mo ago
Check out the table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress. Looks like some of the more recent examples involve Trump aides refusing to appear for the Jan. 6 hearings.
valdemar81
5mo ago
What does it mean to have a financial sector that comprises X% of the economy?
The financial sector makes the rest of the economy more efficient, capturing a percentage of the increased efficiency for itself. For example, if the rest of the economy produces value x, finance boosts it to 2x and captures half the increase (0.5x), then finance is 0.5x / 2x = 25% of the economy.
If one country has its financial sector boost and capture a portion of a different country's economy, you could even end up with a situation where the value captured by finance in the former country exceeds the value produced by the "real" economy in that country.
valdemar81
9mo ago
Try this opposite reframing:
The final two candidates in the election in a democratic yet absolute dictatorial country make statements:
- Red: If elected, I will have everyone who didn't vote for me executed
- Blue: If elected, I won't have anyone executed based on this vote
Who do you vote for?
For true equivalence, we probably have to assume that the candidates are otherwise equivalent. But if we choose Red in this scenario, it's scary to imagine that Red could even "mug" us by also having worse policies that we'd sacrifice for the "guaranteed survival".
I was imagining the legislature would work around the limit by doing something akin to minification to make the bill technically one "line item" that does 6000 things.
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