Socialism in Practice

Didnt the government fund Tesla and Musk plenty over the years? They should have at least demanded they make a range of more affordable EVs.

Originally posted by Robtard
i see someone's a VW fan 🙂

The ID4 is a good looking car.

Yeah it is 😎

And I figured why spend twice as much on the Mercedes equivalent (EQC). Although they have EQA now which isnt much more than the ID4.

But anyway Thats all assuming I ever get the damn thing !

Originally posted by Blakemore
I don't think it's something "the right" has been pushing.

Also, "semantic scholar?" 😂

See Reagan's trickle-down economics speeches.

Originally posted by Robtard
See Reagan's trickle-down economics speeches.

The fact that the already rich just largely kept the profits shows it didn't work. Well, it worked for the rich.

Originally posted by Robtard
The fact that the already rich just largely kept the profits shows it didn't work. Well, it worked for the rich.

The con lies with pretending it's going to create factory jobs, when in reality it created office jobs and more consumer products while cheap foreign labour did the dirty work.

srug

Originally posted by Robtard
The fact that the already rich just largely kept the profits shows it didn't work. Well, it worked for the rich.

I mean, it's easy to say Reagan/Bush caused a recession, Bush II caused a recession and Trump caused a recession, but it's also easy to say Clinton caused the dot com bubble, Carter caused the energy crisis (or was that Nixon?) and Obama was, yeah I got nothing other than he was Obama. srug

Originally posted by Robtard

I recall these arguments being pointed out to me in 2006/07 when I posted a chart similar to that.

Ya, you could, if you want to ignore reality.

It did rise slightly under Bush Sr, but it also fell drastically under Reagan/Bush and Bush/Quayle

Originally posted by Robtard
Ya, you could, if you want to ignore reality.

It did rise slightly under Bush Sr, but it also fell drastically under Reagan/Bush and Bush/Quayle