Quote (fender @ Sep 7 2021 03:27am)
just out of interest, how many of biden's delaware constituents do you think worked for mbna as opposed to those who did not and would have preferred to have better bankruptcy protection? what a silly point to make - not that it's even relevant to begin with, because the legalised bribery is taking the money and then doing their bidding, regardless of how many people they happen to employ.
that whole post is you clumsily setting up the old "good cause" versus "bad cause" argument, suggesting they even remotely cancel each other out (yeah right, the powerful consumer protection industry, big anti private prison, and peace lobby are notoriously generous political donors, lol) when my whole point is that NO corporation (or rich individual), no matter if i personally support them or not, should have that kind of access and influence - since it predictably (and demonstrably) leads to a corporate monopoly on legislation.
you can't avoid that conclusion, all you can do is continue to pretend it's not a bad thing, when all the consequences i listed in my previous post are proof of the opposite.
Well, Delaware is a very "corporate" state for lack of a better term. One of the most famous types of corporations are Delaware Corporations:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/delaware-corporation.aspBanking and financial services make up a substantial portion of the GDP in the state and the number of people employed in the field is equal to the number of those in the food service industry:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1064835/delaware-real-gdp-by-industry/https://labor.delaware.gov/divisions/oolmi/ces/Think about that for a minute. Think about the number of jobs out there where people are serving food in some capacity. That's pretty staggering. In Massachusetts, finance and insurance is about a tenth smaller per capita. To answer your question though, no I don't think the number of people who benefit from that type of legislation outweigh the number that don't (even in the state). However, given that the finance industry is a third of Delaware's GDP, I am not surprised at all that politicians from Delaware are friendly to the banks. In addition, I imagine that the vast majority of people simply do not care one way or another. I mean, do you have an opinion on every single bill that Congress passes? I certainly don't.
I'm not trying to suggest that the good causes outweigh bad causes either. I think that if the information is out in the open and easily accessible, the voters who care about such things can decide for themselves.