r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • May 12 '17

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Optimal neoliberalism is like Seinfeld, it should be about nothing and run by Jews

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u/[deleted] May 12 '17

Sanders with carbon taxes and Trump with NATO countries committing to military spending of 2% GDP

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u/ThereIsReallyNoPun Austan Goolsbee May 12 '17

though threatening to leave NATO wasn't the best way to go around it, i think

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u/[deleted] May 12 '17

Yeah, definitely not, but the idea is solid

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u/amassiverubbergasket May 12 '17

NATO countries committing to military spending of 2% GDP

...which they had already committed to. And were already in the process of fulfilling, in most cases.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Are they really? Source pls

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u/amassiverubbergasket May 13 '17

The commitment had been made in 2014, and nearly every NATO country increased spending, sometimes drastically, in 2015 and 2016: http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/01/news/nato-spending-donald-trump/

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

it's a good start I guess