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Wow, so much went on these last 24 hours in politics:
- On Health Care: It is pretty straightforward, single payer. Single payer systems exert monopsonic power and get very good cost savings. As much as I talk up Social Democracy, I generally am a capitalist when it comes to deferring to the price system and consumer choice. However, the Hayekian argument just does not apply to big, politically connected oligopolies. Commercial banking, energy and healthcare should be state run. We need the magic of the price system to do its thing in the more competitive and diffuse sectors of the economy.
- On Education: Miss me with all that BS, DeVos. I went to Catholic school k-6 but after that my education from middle school, to high school, through undergrad and grad school, was entirely public. The University of California is a shining light to proponents of public education and giant middle finger to people like Betsy DeVos.
- On the Arguments at the 9th Circuit: Very cool to watch on live TV. It would be better if the three judge panel was represented by three cats with fake, puppeteered paws.
- On "out of control" California: California has a huge political ace up it's sleeve, we can start to Gerrymander as retaliation for Federal Defunding. We have 53 seats in Congress and 14 of them belong to Republicans. Unlike some other States we draw our districts fairly so that the minority stills gets a voice. However, we have plenty of Democratic votes to spread around and we could easily Gerrymander all 14 of those Republicans out which would make it much, much easier for Dems to flip the House.
- On Health Care: It is pretty straightforward, single payer. Single payer systems exert monopsonic power and get very good cost savings. As much as I talk up Social Democracy, I generally am a capitalist when it comes to deferring to the price system and consumer choice. However, the Hayekian argument just does not apply to big, politically connected oligopolies. Commercial banking, energy and healthcare should be state run. We need the magic of the price system to do its thing in the more competitive and diffuse sectors of the economy.
- On Education: Miss me with all that BS, DeVos. I went to Catholic school k-6 but after that my education from middle school, to high school, through undergrad and grad school, was entirely public. The University of California is a shining light to proponents of public education and giant middle finger to people like Betsy DeVos.
- On the Arguments at the 9th Circuit: Very cool to watch on live TV. It would be better if the three judge panel was represented by three cats with fake, puppeteered paws.
- On "out of control" California: California has a huge political ace up it's sleeve, we can start to Gerrymander as retaliation for Federal Defunding. We have 53 seats in Congress and 14 of them belong to Republicans. Unlike some other States we draw our districts fairly so that the minority stills gets a voice. However, we have plenty of Democratic votes to spread around and we could easily Gerrymander all 14 of those Republicans out which would make it much, much easier for Dems to flip the House.