GeofCox on Nostr: npub1g0tuf…3tvm4 This appeared in my feed next to a post about how government ...
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This appeared in my feed next to a post about how government subsidies - for example of flights over trains - go in precisely the opposite direction of explicit government aims. This is true of many areas of policy across many countries - for example using high interest rates to combat inflation, rather than more progressive taxation, which would be both more effective and fairer.
The answer of course is vested interests. There's a lot of research showing precisely that despite what the public wants, and despite what politicians say, the policies that actually get implemented are those that suit the wealthiest lobby.
This appeared in my feed next to a post about how government subsidies - for example of flights over trains - go in precisely the opposite direction of explicit government aims. This is true of many areas of policy across many countries - for example using high interest rates to combat inflation, rather than more progressive taxation, which would be both more effective and fairer.
The answer of course is vested interests. There's a lot of research showing precisely that despite what the public wants, and despite what politicians say, the policies that actually get implemented are those that suit the wealthiest lobby.