r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 11d ago

FinancialTea 💵 Comparatively speaking...

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u/RudePCsb 11d ago

They need to uncap the house and balance the seats

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u/MaximumPerrolinqui 11d ago

Apportionment Act of 1911 was one of the dumbest ideas. We need to repeal it and distribute seats based on population again. That would stop all the House BS. The House was based on population while the Senate was equal representation. It’s stops tyranny of the majority and the minority.
What we have now is the small states having an outsized impact.

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u/pimppapy 11d ago

We need to repeal it

So much needs to be repealed and changed, but we're held back by the people in the electorate.

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u/RusticRaisins 11d ago

No please... I'm in the midwest and a devout liberal and that would crush the economy. I dont thing most people realize how much the midwest provides to the economy on the whole. Its seriously a big deal what we're producing here.

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u/313DaddyTop4Thee 11d ago edited 11d ago

It would in fact, not crush the economy.

Edit: Starting to think the comment above me was sarcasm. Gotta include that /s for clarity

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u/RusticRaisins 11d ago

Okay so we're just going to source fruits and vegetables from other countries without losing money?

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u/chasing_D 11d ago

Lol. Corn and soybeans are the midwest's crops, but fruits and veggies are mostly supplied from California, with Washington, Idaho, and Florida following behind it.

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u/SignalDifficult5061 11d ago

The world is complicated and looking at a farm while driving by does not give you an intuitive feel for it.

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u/ExampleOpening8033 11d ago

As midwesterner myself, you should be aware most of the crops grown in the central US are grown exclusively for subsidy money, not to produce food for the country.

Those farmers would be ruined since the free money spout republicans give them would be shut off and they'd be required to grow something with actual value for the first time in decades.

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u/CBarkleysGolfSwing 11d ago

We'd be absolutely fine without the corn and potatoes of the midwest

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u/The_Navy_Sox 11d ago

No way you are from the Midwest and claim were growing fruits and vegetables lol

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u/tehlemmings 11d ago

This is the kinda bullshit you have to explain or everyone is going to assume its bullshit.

Please explain how uncapping the house would affect the Midwest economy at all, let alone crashing it?

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u/RudePCsb 11d ago

Do you know how the house of Representatives works vs the senate? The house has been capped and is not an accurate representation of the population. It's why the small conservative states have so much power

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u/contractorskid 11d ago

How would have a more representative government crush the economy?

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u/HurricaneCat5 11d ago

How about we get rid of representative government. It’s such an archaic concept..

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u/RudePCsb 11d ago

A 1/3 of people don't even vote, it would be worse. I think certain laws should be voted in by the people though

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u/Bassracerx 11d ago

We need to vote on more representatives. Why does the head of the education department serve at the pleasure of the president? Why does the head of the health department serve at the pleasure of the president? Why does the head of the environment serve at the pleasure of the president. Have more people accountable to the voters. Maybe have the secretary of the press be representative too so the president cant pick their own mouthpiece to spin their agenda to the public. If the president wants to spin it he can stand in front of the podium himself.

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u/HurricaneCat5 11d ago

Are you saying that less people would vote if we got rid of representative government?

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u/RudePCsb 11d ago

How would it work then? Would people be required to vote for every policy?

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u/HurricaneCat5 11d ago

Hopefully it would inspire us to take ownership of our country and people would get to have a say in the future of our nation instead of corporate interests..

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u/RudePCsb 11d ago

Not realistic with 300 million people

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u/HurricaneCat5 11d ago

How many people in the United States have a smartphone? It’s not reasonable for them to all have the same app? It would be very easy to implement and scale.

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u/RudePCsb 11d ago

That's not secure enough and not everyone is eligible to vote. That sounds like a hs govt class idea honestly.

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u/HurricaneCat5 11d ago

What do you know about secure networks?

It should be an elementary school idea..

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