Gasoline pump prices

[Allen]

Lost? How can 90 MILLION dollars just be lost? Must be a paper trail to investigate where this money went and to whom and the relationships between the NDDF board and the recipients. It would be nice if the lost money was found and paid back to the taxpayers, but I would bet that the whole thing will be swept under the rug and the grifting will continue especially now that the state is receiving an additional roughly 3 MILLION dollars per day due to high oil prices. Now the legislature can get double drunk on all of this money and hand out more to their buddies!

Not that kind of lost.

 

[Mike Fretty]

Milton Friedman had great insight into being pro free enterprise vs pro business He would say that they’re mutually exclusive. The gov should not be picking winners or losers imo

 

[Sluggo]

Milton Friedman had great insight into being pro free enterprise vs pro business He would say that they’re mutually exclusive. The gov should not be picking winners or losers imo

I agree with this. I believe our government's original objective was very simple: keep us safe internally and externally, provide a level playing field for all and then stay the hell out of the way. But then we had to start with "but what about this group, they could use a little help" and now we have 1000s of "little groups" that the government is attempting to help, but, in many cases, don't. And then up hindering or penalizing others in the process.

 

[Browneye]

Milton Friedman had great insight into being pro free enterprise vs pro business He would say that they’re mutually exclusive. The gov should not be picking winners or losers imo

I would say we are now at the point where the "winners" are picking our govt.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Back to the thread about GAS PRICES.

 

[Mike Fretty]

Back to the thread about GAS PRICES.

A book by Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell would greatly help this thread

 

[Jiffy]

That would require reading….maybe you can AI that shit? IDK

 

[Sluggo]

I would say we are now at the point where the "winners" are picking our govt.

A couple ways to look at that. First, I would rather have winners in charge rather than losers. But, I don't like the fact that the candidate with the most campaign money often times wins. In 2010 the SC ruling opened the door to unlimited contributions by corporations, that was not a good thing for the country.