Someone’s “lobbying” them to make this decision.
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end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 3 days agoSerious question: why do they feel like they are qualified to make decisions on it then? Like if I was in that position, I would defer to an expert committee or professional association.
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ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Also Michael Blomberg has spent over $50M to push for this bill to pass.
thanksforreading@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
What happens is they do defer to the expert. The expert is a plant by which ever lobbiest chose to sponsor the bill. I’m had correspondences with my government about fields I am intimately familiar with and their arguments about technical feasibility were given to them by their Big4 “expert”. The problem is I know the field well enough to understand their expert is simply giving the opinion they were paid to give and the technical feasibility of the proposals take a back seat to the political desire of the people pushing the proposal.