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0 pointsmannerheim2y ago0 comments

It is exactly that simple. Closing down a tank factory to build something in another state isn't going to help the representative in that district get elected.

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Stranger432y ago

But running that tank factory is probably the least effective way of converting tax dollars into employment.

And thats one senator in one district it takes 50% of both senate and congress to pass a bill and not everytone gets contracts that big assigned to their district so the system is not individual senators all trying to secure the biggest employment gain for their district, it's much less rational.

mannerheimOP2y ago

> But running that tank factory is probably the least effective way of converting tax dollars into employment.

You'd be surprised. See, e.g., steel tariffs costing $900,000 per job saved. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/07/trumps-st...

> And thats one senator in one district it takes 50% of both senate and congress to pass a bill and not everytone gets contracts that big assigned to their district so the system is not individual senators all trying to secure the biggest employment gain for their district, it's much less rational.

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