Yes, getting the money (bribes) out of government, so we can get upgrades to health care reforms that are real and focused on citizens many of whom pay taxes for this purpose. Medium contributor Larry Lessig has been harping on this issue for years. Let's avoid corporate welfare to those profiting from us, big time.

"No more bail outs."

Bail outs happen in mysterious ways. In the past 30 days our local media has trotted out some fun news regarding the 2 big dying malls in town regarding remodeling of those

properties. Barely mentioned and usually only in the written parts of the story is how this is funded? The stories talk of fairly large mall infrastructure remodeling, (and plans that didn't come dreamed up overnight, they were mostly already in the can, probably a year ago) but most don't realize the question, who is going to foot the bill for all the utility hookups to the city, hmmm? Like water, sewer, electric, pavement, street lighting, etc. Are failed or (the recent chapter 11 candidate mega-mall landlords, when, last Sunday night?) going to pay for the remodel? Nope. No, the property taxes and user taxes are going to pay for this, which to me means by December 2021 we will probably see the 3rd +$400 year of property tax increases or $1,200.00 in 3 years. Ouch. Can we afford it? Probably unless we die for some reason since we have been retired for some time now. Can the younger gens afford new single family housing in our county? Absolutely not! Plus I get postcards in the mail weekly from snail-mail spamers saying they will buy our place for cash, no closing costs, blah, blah, blah. <explicative> house flippers NO DOUBT! So we are in one of many 'housing bubble' countys in the USA.

So yeah, federal funds to local governments , plus failed brick & Mortar retail collateral damages herald a new future bill of some kind, let's call it what it is, downstream damage for taxpayers, or in this case corporate welfare for mall landlords, just gotta love our economic system, right? Yes, we survive so far, but most others are totally trapped without decent employment, or sustatinable employment, and debt.

(Heck, maybe there's a reason so many are working from home nowadays, they flipping have to)

Sorry for the book, my finger muscle memory got away from itself.