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I guess Justice Brown-Jackson doesn’t realize her job is to determine Constitutionality, not to make policy decisions.
She took the position it was not legal, which is her job, even when others disagree with her position. Her additional comments are of the same sort that *all* the justices have said about what consequences they foresee from a decision they disagree with. In fact, some of the more conservative justices frequently editorialize and make policy comments in their opinions.
There is a reason suburban Washing, D.C. makes up 5 of the 7 wealthiest counties in the U.S. The other 2 are on the exclusive central coast of California. Much of that D.C. wealth is the result of federal employees and contractors paid to service or administer the ever expanding federal bureaucracy. Granted, some of it is necessary, but like any self-interested bureaucracy, it will never rationalize its own size or growth. That rationalization needs to happen, now, before it consumes the productive economy that makes it all possible.
Much of the wealth is from wealthy individuals who want to locate near the seat of power, and the lobbyists, lawyers that follow.
If you go to DC, you can see many grand Gilded Age mansions, especially in the DuPont Circle neighborhood. These were built long, long before DC had anything of the sort of bureaucracy it has now.
Also, about 80% of all federal employees work *outside* of the DC metro area.
DC and its suburbs will remain an area of highly concentrated wealth, even with the downsizing of federal employees. I mean who needs air traffic controllers or food inspectors, right?
Yeah, federal workers are paid millions of dollars. What world do you live in?!
Christopher, You make my point. Lobbyists and power brokers need to be near D.C. because the federal government is so large and controls so much of the nation’s economy through regulations and federal programs — they need to be there to buy influence and shape policy. And federal employees are paid very well, earn large pensions, and then many go back to work as consultants and contractors for the agencies they just left.
And no one is claiming we don’t need air traffic controllers or food inspectors. That’s the old trick we always hear every time an attempt is made to make the federal bureaucracy the slightest bit accountable.
The Court did not approve Trump’s plans to downsize. It merely prevented a single federal district judge in one district in California from blocking the Administration’s efforts to make a plan to downsize, which is why eight of the Court’s nine justices supported the decision. And if you’re on the side of never allowing the federal government to even consider a downsizing plan, as only Ketanji Brown-Jackson is, perhaps you could use a refresher course on employment law and how the government works. A course in economics and the cost of debt might be useful as well.
Ah, so now Republicans care about the debt again now that their Big Bloated Bill is signed. Who could have predicted that.
Cowards
Michael N — and you would have put through the largest single tax increase in history to feed the monster, with the added benefit of causing a recession? It’s very clear where the Democrats stand — with the federal bureaucracy and ever more government — never the taxpayers.
Or they could make selective changes so taxes increase only to those that aren’t paying a fair share – like Musk and others. It’s ok to make changes; the House and Senate seem to forget this is their job!
Millions of individuals will lose their healthcare. Millions more will lose access to food they need to live. But, f-them, right?
The only important thing is that the multi-billionaire oligarchs are made even richer. After all, Musk has to pay child support for his 14 kids, and Bezos has to pay off his multi-millionaire dollar spectacle of a Venetian wedding–and send another pop star into space.
Make it 1927 again.
Christopher — you’re delusional. The top 1% of income earners pay 40% of federal income tax revenues. The top 5% pay 60%. The top 10% pay 70%. Go ahead and raise tax rates further on that 1% and see what happens. Much of their income will flee to tax havens and the federal treasury will end up less. Plus, most of those billionaires are Democrats, like Bezos and his Washington Post, because they use big government, in D.C., to acquire more wealth and power.