Ahhh. the go-to strategy. Let's pretend liberty really means anarchy!
Police, zoning municipal planning, water supply, sewers and fire are local responsibilities. Environmental regulations have done more harm than good. Look at California for examples, the Coastal Commission regulates everything from the mean low water mark to sometimes as far as five miles inland, the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy stifles all development in or near the mountains, the Southern California Air Quality Management District has restricted diesel emissions from trucks, ships and even locomotives raising costs to the consumers by enormous amounts and constricting the flow of goods out of and into Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors. The EPA keeps increasing the emissions controls well after the point the law of diminishing returns has taken effect and mandates all the electric cars that no one wants to buy. The Feds claim shallow streams are navigable water ways in order to regulate the owners of the land they traverse.
The PRC now, the USSR before, Nazi Germany and Japan before that. Our military enforces freedom of navigation. Would you rather see a Pax China rather than a Pax Americana? We are the most benevolent superpower in the history of the planet. I'd much rather see us setting the rules than a despotic dictatorship like China.
We are the worlds watchdog deploying military around the globe.
You are playing games
Conservatives and libertarians don't oppose environmental regulation. It's just a question of extent. And the liberals' habit of using the environment as an excuse for more state control of business doesn't help the cause.
They don’t oppose environmental regulation as lomg as it doesn’t cost money
Yeah, yeah, yeah - you've peered inside their minds and discovered their secret evil motives.
Preppy Progressives
They're shrewd. An Indian student tenant just moved out leaving a badly clogged up kitchen sink from food scraps. But he cleaned the sink making it look like it was ok. I will probably have to use sulfuric acid to clear the clog.
And you still want to claim we can drastically expand the "safety net", even though we would have to borrow astronomical amounts of money to do it, with no negative impacts? You know that's where the wheels fell off your tricycle.
We're in a student area, near the university, with lots of international students. We can't discriminate. Most of them are ok tenants but some are terrible housekeepers.
Again it comes down to priorities
They can spend less on defense because we ARE the world's police force. Let Uncle Sam pull out of Europe and Asia and watch the military budgets soar and social safety nets get cut.
Makes zero sense
Do you deny that the American military's presence in Europe allows European nations to spend less on defense? How trusting, for one example, would France and England be to watch Germany ramp up military spending after America leaves? How trusting would Russia be with America not on the scene?
