An excellent argument to be made when arguing about the
STop Unrelated Crap Killing budgets act.
STUCK(b) Act. See? Even has a cool acronym.
And if they take a few dozen sessions deliberating over it while the government keeps funding and running on previous bills, that’s OK. That’s the point. There should not be an easy path to leverage government’s ability function to force a vote in your favor, bypassing traditional debate, compromise, and processes.
Y’all need to get a word in with your representatives that what’s needed is legislation preventing budget bills from containing anything other than budgets.
That would solve this problem real quick. It’s been sounding stupider and stupider using the budget meeting to force unpopular agendas down throats or else the government is held hostage.
I think it would fit the bill if budgeting was held up over allocations, one side wants more border spending, one side wants more educational spending, etc, that would make sense but “allow us to attach this whole other unrelated law to declare the sky is actually green(which also contains a tag along that I get to be emperor), or nobody gets paid” is just ridiculous.
Seems like a good post as any to ask this.
Genuine discussion:
I get what people think about ads. I run an adblocker on top of a pihole. I do that because ads became too intrusive. Not just too accurate, but because they became 60% of a given page, and pop-overs, and crap like that.
I’m not alone in scrubbing ads from my life. But, as ads are banished from our lives, nickel and dime-ing has become more popular.
Now everywhere I go a site is demanding a subscription, and there are fears of a future of micro transactions. Imagine a future where you load $20 into your browser and spend 0.0002 cents on every page load…everywhere.
The internet, as with everything, runs on money. Nothing is free. So I genuinely hope someone can come up with a fair compromise. Ads got too bold and we shut them down. Now they are coming at us directly for cash. Which do we prefer? If they went back to more sane ads, would we turn off our blockers? Or are we just waiting for the internet to run on bitcoin/monero, ad-free (or ads-as-alternative), but pay-per-view?