Reposting from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10331848" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10331848</a><p>That is kinda how political negotiation works. One side says, &quot;We want X.&quot; The other side says, &quot;Ok, we&#x27;ll support X if it also has Y.&quot; Repeat that, in this case for a few years, and you have a very large number of Y&#x27;s.<p>The problem with saying this,<p>&gt; Because tons of it is likely to be things that would not pass if they were part of small little individual deals where the vested interests were not so huge.<p>Is that the thing that potentially would pass would never make it out to see the daylight without negotiation, which is how you get the things that potentially wouldn&#x27;t pass stand-alone. (And I say potentially, because for every person we&#x27;re probably talking about different things.)