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Augusta rule help? I mean, it helps you
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keep more of what’s yours. And a I think
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that’s a good thing. The people who work
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for it are the ones who deserve it. If
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you don’t agree with that, pay more
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taxes. Just ignore me. Shut it off right
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now. We’re not for you.
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Yeah.
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Uh and follow your principles. If you
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vote for high taxes, pay them.
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But if you look at what individuals do,
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they invest. They invest in biotech and
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curing cancer, in making products that
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make our lives better. And no,
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capitalism isn’t perfect. Nothing human
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is, but it beats the alternative. If you
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look at what government does with the
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money, they’ve proved time and time
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again at on a good day, they’re just
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going to waste it.
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Yeah. The stat I’ve heard is that the
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same project from the government will
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cost about 300% more.
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That’s what we’ve seen.
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That’s highly optimistic.
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Yeah.
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Um on a bad day, the government will use
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the money for outright evil. Mhm.
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Um encouraging people to do things that
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they shouldn’t do
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the nine projects.
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Yeah. I’m assuming Yeah. We get Well,
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and I’ll give you an example. Right now,
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um light rail in the US costs six times
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per mile than it does in Europe.
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And most of that, by the way, is due to
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excessive environmental litigation.
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Yeah.
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You can’t get anything done. You can’t
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build anything. Why would we continue to
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feed this beast, this bloated beast that
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enriches itself? I I just don’t see much
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good coming of that. So, morally, that’s
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where I’m at. Now the larger question of
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what else can people do because there’s
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the Augusta rule and we’re biased to
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discuss that you know I think the larger
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picture is people have not been very
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good citizens
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when what other point in time would you
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rather exist we live in the wealthiest
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place in the wealthiest time and someone
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will say oh no Switzerland’s wealthier
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the general larger point is in the west
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we live in the best time and place in
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the history of humans
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this is a marvelous time for all of its
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flaws Because humans are around and what
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do humans do? Screw things up. That’s
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what they do. You know what people need
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to do? They need to get involved.
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They’re terrible citizens. They don’t
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vote in the primaries. They don’t
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contribute with some of this money we
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save them
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to causes to help preserve this
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wonderful but imperfect thing we have
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and and it’s fading. We see our society,
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we know it’s sick. We know things are
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wrong. Mhm.
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So maybe take a little bit of the money
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that’s saved
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and with some gratitude, which I have
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vast gratitude. I’m so grateful for the
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era and place I was born in. I did
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nothing to deserve it. I don’t feel
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guilty. I feel gratitude
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of of when and where I am. And I try to
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do my part. And maybe when people have a
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little bit more left over,
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you can do all sorts of worthy things.
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Build a family. A lot of people won’t
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build a family because they don’t think
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they can afford it.
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but also protect this wonderful yes it’s
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imperfect but this wonderful thing we