As opposed to printing it for Ukraine? Yes.
We need domestic computer chips. There’s a plant being built in Arizona. We need another.
> We need domestic computer chips.
yes.
> There’s a plant being built in Arizona.
Yes, TSMC (ally of AMD).
> We need another.
not if it will not be competitive and only used to enrich politicians and hedge funds, and soak taxpayers and investors.
If we take a step back and look at the bigger picture, we can see that line every in the Federal Budget, has it’s supporters. They can even make a case for the spending.
Congress in the position of playing Santa Claus, Congress just says yes to everyone, this way they get re-elected.
No one says, “I voted for “Joe Blow” because he failed to bring home the bacon.”
Intel can get free money just for asking, after all they have our balls in a vice, so who can blame they. Ukraine needs support as to not appease a mad dictator, so yes it’s good to save innocent people.
The sad part is we haven’t even begun to talk about how no one has a penny in their so called “social security account”.
So sure let’s write Intel a check, stand up to Russia, and fund farmers and NPR...
I wonder how many dollars Congress spends for every dollar it take in?