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I support a lot of your goals, but I think increasing taxation is a bad way to do it. Do you think the government spends money efficiently now? I don't think ev

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• munificent 8y ago
  > Do you think the government spends money efficiently now? I also find myself in the habit of asking questions like this, but I think it's the wrong way to frame it. Like many things in life, the question isn't "if", it's "which". The money is going somewhere, so the question isn't whether the government is doing good with it, it's whether the government would do better with it compared to where else it's going. I totally agree the government is a pretty inefficent system for improving human welfare. But I still think it's a better one than, say, Apple's offshore coffers or Bezos' plan to go to space. The US government doesn't have to do that good of a job to do better than the average large US corporation. > Our healthcare system already spends 1.5-2x more than other developed countries for similar outcomes. Agreed. Health insurance companies are also giant corporations that would fall under my "tax them more" goals. (And, if we want to go farther down the "fix all the things rabbithole", obviously eliminating corporate personhood and removing corporate money from elections should come into play.)