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I wonder what $80b in extra tax receipts could do for American education, healthcare or social mobility. Ah well, at least Apple shareholders get a few more do
by maxehmookau 9y ago
I wonder what $80b in extra tax receipts could do for American education, healthcare or social mobility.
Ah well, at least Apple shareholders get a few more dollars.
- mempko 9y agoSad thing is we don't need the tax receipts to pay for those things. Its a political problem , not a fiscal one .
- maxehmookau 9y agoThat may be true, but the political problem is one where American politicians put low taxation above almost all social issues. Having the political will to collect that money is the first step to correcting the political problem you refer to.
- MaysonL 9y agoOrrin Hatch, after voting for a trillion-dollar tax cut, said there wasn't any money for CHIP.
- woolvalley 9y agoWhats even funnier is how inefficient we are with the capital we use in healthcare and education.
- moxious 9y agoWith that amount of money the federal government could make a few interest payments on its debt and not even really make a dent in the total
- valuearb 9y agoSince we already spend more on education, healthcare and social mobility now than ever before, pretty much nothing. It’s like a mob unhappy with their winter meals seeing a large grain store that a prosperous farmer has stored up to plant next years harvest with, and saying “Let’s eat that until we are full!”. Yea but you’ll be starving next winter.