Is it possible that Furman views these two seemingly throwaway paragraphs as part and parcel of "post-neoliberal economic policy" and not simply de minimis bumps to be sanded away?
"The point isn’t that the Biden administration’s policies were all right and perfect. They weren’t. The stimulus package was bigger than it should have been. The IRA needed a coordinating institution to make it work. Requiring chip makers to provide child-care centers was a symbolic but burdensome addition that slowed implementation by complicating compliance.
The most glaring oversight was the inability to clear out the regulatory morass that slows construction and development in the United States. We should be able to build semiconductor plants faster, install more electric vehicle charging stations, and complete infrastructure projects in a reasonable timeframe."
As far as regulations that slow building, not sure I'd call it an oversight, seems like it was identified and ended up being ignored, harder to characterize why it was ignored in some sense. My assumption was it was a combination of people thinking the tradeoffs were OK, slow building is fine, and leveraging any wanted regulatory policy change for other things.
Is it possible that Furman views these two seemingly throwaway paragraphs as part and parcel of "post-neoliberal economic policy" and not simply de minimis bumps to be sanded away?
"The point isn’t that the Biden administration’s policies were all right and perfect. They weren’t. The stimulus package was bigger than it should have been. The IRA needed a coordinating institution to make it work. Requiring chip makers to provide child-care centers was a symbolic but burdensome addition that slowed implementation by complicating compliance.
The most glaring oversight was the inability to clear out the regulatory morass that slows construction and development in the United States. We should be able to build semiconductor plants faster, install more electric vehicle charging stations, and complete infrastructure projects in a reasonable timeframe."
As far as regulations that slow building, not sure I'd call it an oversight, seems like it was identified and ended up being ignored, harder to characterize why it was ignored in some sense. My assumption was it was a combination of people thinking the tradeoffs were OK, slow building is fine, and leveraging any wanted regulatory policy change for other things.