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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Only a crisis (like COVID-19), actual or perceived, produces real change" -- Milton Friedman
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"When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110844-only-a-crisis---actual-or-perceived---produces-real
TrumpCo is not delaying/hampering coronavirus testing and treatment out of incompetence. This health crisis represents enormous profit potential to them.
It also represents opportunity to alter/change legislation, tax codes, entitlement programs, etc.
They're looking for the best way to exploit the crisis. The worse it gets, the easier it will be to promote their pro-corporate policies.
IMHO.
ON EDIT: yes, I altered the quote.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,647 posts)lark
(23,160 posts)The tax cuts are a dead give-away.
2naSalit
(86,822 posts)what that did for W and for rudy. So I think defeating them in every way is necessary.
comradebillyboy
(10,177 posts)Created huge labor shortages and seriously damaged the feudal order.
Turin_C3PO
(14,083 posts)limiting how much money peasants could make on their labor, keeping them in poverty. Then the Peasants Revolt in 1381 occurred and killed many noblemen. So Republicans, look out! (Not actually advocating for the death of Republicans).