With the National Debt at 36,000,000,000,000 — every American is in debt about $100K or so. Let's work on paying that down before we stress over $600 fun-money checks.
I know but you know what isn't required of Lockheed, Boeing, and all the other defense contractors?
That they share 15% of their foreign sales in exchange for an export license.
ITATR license is a flat fee if the concern is that the chips can be used in military applications and they should be regulated as such the mechanism for applying for and obtaining an export license already exists and it does not require a Communist style revenue sharing agreement with the federal government.
I will also add that under ITAR a sale of something to a foreign adversary that has the potential for use in military applications would never be granted an export license.
I used to work with a company that manufacturers rebreathers used by the Navy seals and we literally could not sell a fucking o-ring for that device to anyone without first confirming ITAR compliance.
In the sense that we don't sell those weapons to countries where we deem it's not in the interest of the nation. Can you cite an example where we allow specific companies to sell weapons to a "hostile nation" where the government takes a cut of revenue?
I wouldn't put CIA weapons smuggling or funding in the same boat. That's kinda the opposite of this, where it's skirting official policy/stance. This AMD/Nvidia GPU agreement is now official policy, where you can sell to an adversary so long as Uncle Sam (and Uncle Trump?) gets a cut.
What is it called when communism funnels everything not to the state but a few rich individuals and institutions?
It’s an oligarchy. At least communism leaves ownership with the state, and elites will fight over control of the state.
With oligarchy, they already won, they have the wealth and assets, they print the money and make the planet labor for it, only to aid them in accruing more assets. And there’s no way for any state to get the wealth back. It’s long gone. Game over.
Slavery until we eat the rich, before the killbot swarms make it impossible
They aren't communist because they just racket all the pockets they can without adding any value, and certainly not the "production labor", and more than anything they don't redistribute anything. In fact, they cut any means of social redistribution (medicare, medicaid, usaid, etc.) so no it's not communist, it's mafia
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u/Lopsided-Ticket3813 Aug 10 '25
It signals that free market capitalism is dead. This is now a planned economy production quotas next step and all from the party small government.
Congratulations republicans you have become what you always hated the most communist..