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Braxton1980yesterday at 11:27 PM5 repliesview on HN

The majority of tax payers voted for this to happen


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anon7000yesterday at 11:58 PM

And the majority of tax payers voted for the previous admin too, which started this offshore wind project in the first place.

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sgerenseryesterday at 11:39 PM

Plurality, not majority. (Not that I’m excusing the dumb dumbs who decided not voting was a viable course of action when they decided that “both sides” were running bad candidates).

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collingreenyesterday at 11:49 PM

I didn't see this particular policy on the ballot. I hope you use this logic uniformly when deciding if it is valid to care about a particular policy.

tomjakubowskiyesterday at 11:44 PM

Many taxpayers are non-citizens or convicted felons and cannot vote. Turnout of citizens who were eligible to vote last election was 65%. Of those, 49.8% voted for Trump. Some portion of them likely did not vote with this specific policy in mind.

ericfr11today at 12:08 AM

Voted for what? More pollution, more expensive gas, more expensive electricity??

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