Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way.
hanrahan@piefed.social 2 days agoThey could have funded this themselves, stick to there philosophical guns over governemt … didn’t need to get a grant but here we are.
sj_zero 1 day ago
You can't break even you can't break even.
How many guys shovelling shit for a living get taxed to high heaven so some farmer can have 800,000 in government money?
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Zero of those guys get taxed for that reason. How many billions of dollars are going untaxed into the hands of the wealthiest people so the government can cancel this solar project and deny healthcare to that worker?
sj_zero 14 hours ago
Look, if you want to argue with me that the US healthcare system is broken, you'll get no argument from me.
The US government spends more public money per person than Canada, and yet most people in the United States need to pay for entirely Private health insurance. It's a fantastic example of the brokenness of the US system. For the amount of money being fought for in the US healthcare system, there should be one of the world's best single-payer options.
And you can't even get partisan on it because the current system was put into place by supermajority democrats. Most people forget that.
But that's the problem. When you're dealing with a corrupt government, it doesn't really matter what nice ideas are on the table. They take your money or the money from your great-grandkids, and they hand it to their buddies, you ain't in the club.
And that goes for healthcare, that goes for green energy, it goes for whatever you've got.
All you're seeing here is a changing of the guard where money stops being sent to one set of rich people who probably could have afforded to do something on their own so that it can be sent to another set of rich people who probably could have afforded to do something on their own.