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This is an important point. NEPA and other regulations have hobbled the state even more than they've hobbled the private sector. If progressives want to have the state do big things (like build green energy), they have to dismantle the barriers their predecessors erected!
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Matthew Yglesias
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When leftists show up with regulatory ideas, the private sector is more effective at pushing back than the public sector. The result is that the state itself is perversely more heavily encumbered — especially in bluer states — than private businesses. slowboring.com/p/shackling-th
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Kyle Handley
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I think an example of this is that California could probably make the green transition even faster, build more housing, build more public transit, etc. if the California Environmental Quality Act didn't exist. Fighting words, I know.
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Brian Chang
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With nepa, I think the issue is that private sector tries to beat challenges, or negotiate a minimal level of compliance. The state treats them as “stakeholders” and hear’s them out.
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Boomertarian Norm
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When I was a cog in the California regulatory machine, the appointed executie positions would always want to do something NOW and I and others would have to point to the rules that said we couldn't do that since it was against the law.
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Desert Pretzel
@surlygopher
If memory serves there was a solar project in CA that then-President Obama tried to “fast track” thru some federal requirements that *still* hasn’t broken ground due to CA’s approval process.
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@GeorgeR21234525
1/ we still seek to hold govt to account but have effectively been overpowered and given up with the lobbyist-loaded freebooters. 2/discriminately, with clear project aims. Regulation is reaction to irresponsible power. Deregulation should enable action by responsible power.
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Larry Stevens
@lfstevens
Gotta say, things that happen when the state becomes unhobbled (vaccine passports, social media manipulation, to name a couple) don't make me that enthusiastic about setting the state free.
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Dinesh
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the bluer the state the shitter it gets. * Florida vs California (BTW, big tech is not Tech, just a bunch of website companies)
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