We were, but being set to expire in a decade and redundant 24 hour news cycles means they were designed to be forgotten.
Maeve
joined 2 years ago
Can you find and link me to the article? Ideally, they're to fund public necessities, schools and other infrastructure, roads, etc, fire departments, sanitation, defense, anything used by the collective.
No one had the honesty or will to do it on easy mode. Child labor and slave fishers and mass natural wealth extraction for little gain is not only still going on, the world over. Sometimes in slow news cycles, the corporate media will toss out a reminder story, people may call their reps and do a little clicktivism for a month, then go back to trying to survive on less hours, for less pay, and working multiple jobs, then being surprised that now 70-80% of the population can't make ends meet while shopping groceries on pay-over-time schemes.
In short, the fire under our collective butt isn't hot enough to motivate us, yet.
The government did not speak of the roundtable before its election win, the size of which has spurred calls from economists, think tanks and some MPs for Labor to consider broader reform to tackle issues such as reducing the reliance on income taxes...
The rest of the article details going the same route the USA has followed since Nixon. Do. not. open. the. door. to this. Please, for your own sakes.
That can be remedied with effort.
Blursed * humanity
Yes, I am. I'm also able to hang out with others, but because I don't hold red state views, I have to limit it for my own well-being.
I believe IBM will be happy to do their part.
I feel like indie news is more important than ever, even if it means hand-cranked mimeos and passing them from person to person. Telecom can be cut at any time.
Exactly.