The government contracts/subsidies are about military spending and ensuring that larger countries can compete with one another in military power.

Building, funding, keeping an industry critical to national military priorities is the purpose here.

Where's the Apple buyback or warranty fix for defective devices?

They are out of support warranty period, though for fundamental unpatchable security holes a 10 year window of buyback is needed.

And buyback at a percentage of the most recent equivalent device's retail price, not a pro-rated 3% off of buying a new device.

The EU has laws about fitness of purpose.

Does Mozilla expect to keep going another 10 years with the 25 year old lame JavaScript, html (XML overhead), CSS, and the pyramid of workarounds?

It's all been in the "fortran forever" vein from them on the web standards for 20 years.

(Yes, Fortran is good for a lot of scientific and other uses....)

Linux switched to Git in 2006.

A replacement is needed, even if it is a wrapper on top of git. (Yes Lore is not git)

The dozens of non-programmer people we've had to train on using Git and the fundamental disconnect of terminology git uses is a negative.

So what groups of people will be in a job which has a large labor surplus?

And, exactly, what job and how much will their wages go up or down for the tens of millions of people in a job with labor surpluses?

Lastly, what percent of the total jobs will have labor shortages? 1%, 2% ?
And what will the other 98% of the people needing to work, feed themselves, have a place to stay, raise children do for money?

Aging demographics.

Millennials hit their beyond-giving-birth years.

Aged 32 to 47 now with rapidly declining chances of ever giving birth to the first baby.

Age 27 women have a less than 50% chance of ever giving birth if the have not done so by age 27. Includes married, single, in a relationship, engaged, etc.

Microsoft and others can focus on reducing software complexity, reducing the mess of what's installed, reducing the number of binaries, DLLs, interprocess communication links and footprint of their software.

Predict - Microsoft follows Apple and re-hosts Windows on top of Linux.

California or another state needs to put a top-line revenue tax on corporations instead of a corporate income tax.

It could be a 1% to 4% top line revenue tax.

The income tax on corporations need to be instead a top-line global revenue tax so that corporations could not jurisdiction shop to avoid taxes, have phantom expenses (one company leasing equipment from another company, both companies owned by the same parent corporation), or other paper shuffling moves to avoid taxes.

The benefit would also preclude the politicians from using regulations, tax dedications, ... to favor or not favor their campaign contributor corporate executives, corporations and PACs setup by industry groups.

Extend this same top-line revenue tax without exemptions or deductions individuals as well.

Freeing up for more productive use the hundreds of millions spent annually by corporations, governments, and individuals on compliance, accounting and legal.

We already have state level sales tax collection which could be used to collect the corporate taxes.
The social security/medicare withholding for W2 per-paycheck could be used to have a line item for state top-level wage tax.

Capital gains, carried interest, and other less common tax events could be handled by the greatly reduced in scope tax revenue departments at the state level.

Depreciation and other long standing tax write-offs could be left to expire after 10 years with no new assets to be put in depreciation by corporations.

How much longer will the average person keep getting derailed into US vs THEM arguments?

How many larger issues are getting kicked down the road for another decade so that the status-quo stagnation and decay is maintained for the mono-party (both Rep and Dem) geriatrics, and well-funded groups/corporations/ngo/nonprofits?

- Decades of wage growth below rate of inflation for life events (house, college, ...)
- Decades of decay in family formation, keeping families together, treating both half equal before, during and after family divorce
- Decades of consolidation of influence and power in the legislative bodies, executive, corporations, and government agencies
- Decades of letting uncollected NGOs, third-party non-profits, review commissions, panels of experts, ... to write legislation, have undue influence in legislation, regulatory decisions, and what to focus on for regulation and enforcement.
- Decades of jurisdiction shopping by corporation for tax rebates and tax avoidance

- Asset stripping by private equity

1) borrow money to buy out a business
2) sell the building and land to another company, rent back to the business at high cost
3) pay the management company (private equity) a large amount of money - Their profit!
4) Run the business day to day with high management fees
5) Default on the loans, rent,... and go out of business

https://www.aft.org/hc/fall202...
"Steward filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2024. The system reported over $9 billion in liabilities in its bankruptcy filing, which included almost $1 billion owed to vendors and medical suppliers and $6.6 billion in long-term lease obligations to its hospital landlord, Medical Properties Trust.10 Steward’s bankruptcy is one of the largest hospital bankruptcies in decades."

These senators proposing many 'plans' over the years which have no chance of becoming law just to grandstand for the camera and news media.

This is just hot air spoken to raise campaign funds and gather votes for the next election.

Many of the oldest senators, well beyond retirement age, have less than a handful of laws which they introduced and got passed into law.

Let's discuss these proposals when they are on the calendar for full house or senate vote and not while they are 'ideas', before a committee or amendments to a bill which is not going to pass.

The question to ask is "What bills have you introduced and got passed into law in the last 2 years which have directly helped the average US citizen?"

According to the first source, the total spending by colleges in the USA is $700 billion.

That would make the spending the second largest federal government budget item, just below social security.

- What gets cut from the federal budget?
- Will the free college include free books, free housing, free transportation, free school supplies?
- How many dollars of free education at the college level will someone be limited to over their lifetime?
- Will there be age limits so that going to free college is not a retirement entertainment plan for people who are very unlikely to pay payroll taxes?
- Will there be limits so that someone cannot relocate to the USA, get a free education, then relocate to another country?
- Will the free college be means tested, so that a wealthy family's daughter or son does not get free education?
- Will the free college be limited to public universities, or can it be used to pay for buildings / salaries for religious universities?

Since the earlier comment was mentioned that payroll taxes will be higher, will their be a clawback if someone goes to college for free and either does not graduate, never works, or earns less than 1.5x minimum wage? The clawback being turning the free college which is unused / underused into a college loan or garnishment of wages / transfer payments.

Source A - Educational spending https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/...
Source B - Federal budget spending https://fiscaldata.treasury.go...

Dennis Moore - "Blimey, this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought."

"How can the government of Spain get the maximum tax revenue from this new business?"

what could go wrong?

www-no-ai-videos . youtube . com

And also require the "try this one trick" advertisements to clearly state what the 1 trick is within the first 10 seconds of the video.

13) Disclose if an interview has prepared questions and prepared answers
14) Disclose if an interview was scripted or based on press kit from the interviewee
15) Disclose if the article is just another low effort social media scraping
16) Report medical news for medical conditions affecting women and men from both the men's perspective and the woman's perspective, not just one gender repeatedly with a non-valid "it also affects the other gender too" fake equality