What's missing are the jobs lost in other parts of the economy, because govt stimulus is basically a transfer of resources from existing private businesses. In other words, do we really think taxing Google, filtering the money through Congress and the lobbying machine, and providing those funds to a politically favored roads project is really a net jobs creator for the economy?
The U.S. economy is stalled because of a wave of government legislative activism (health care, finance, bailouts, energy, labor) unseen here since the New Deal.
Please explain this nonsensical argument. How does the Rolling Stones holding the copyright to Paint It Black stifle someone else's innovation and creativity? Seriously. Innovation and creativity go with being original, and you're encouraging being derivative.
Look at Disney and don't tell me that a lack of copyright makes creativity. A lack of copyright just enables corporations to mass produce drivel from non-copyrighted works and cut out the talented people. Disney is barely a step away from just an algorithm that creates film scripts from Brothers Grimm stories.
Your post is too partisan and too cynical. This was a good day, and the system worked.
Of course Congress will hold hearings and some will complain loudly-- it is a controversial and major decision-- but there is no mechanism for Congress to overturn this action...it is up to the courts, the law, and the economists, as designed.
That is significantly less than the cost of... several single large initiatives that have passed through Congress recently (no doubt if I picked an actual example then I'd wind up with a political argument on my hands...)
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