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Try telling a homeless Veteran that it was worth $20 billion to prove the Higgs mechanism. We could house 400,000 homeless for that price.
by AnonymousRider 8y ago
Try telling a homeless Veteran that it was worth $20 billion to prove the Higgs mechanism. We could house 400,000 homeless for that price.
- crazygringo 8y agoOr why don't we do both. It isn't either/or. Taxes can be raised, especially on the ultra-wealthier.
- YjSe2GMQ 8y agoIf you're talking about the income tax idea by AOC it'll only boost taxes by 0.3%, assuming no tax dodging: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/leaders/2019/02/02/how-to-tax-the-rich https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/leaders/2019/...
- YjSe2GMQ 8y agoWell but how about a cutting edge silicon fab that gave the entire world a powerful device that fits in one's pocket to access all of human knowledge, instantaneously? For 20B? Add to this the fact that technology is powered by science and you get a very different picture.
- hatboat 8y agoWhy is it I generally only ever hear this argument (or some variant of it, e.g. starving children) when discussing a proposed scientific endeavour? Why not trim the US military budget by 10% and generate 3x as much revenue, you could house 1.2 million homeless for that price.
- perl4ever 8y agoWith $20 billion, you could house 400,000 homeless people for three or four years, not forever. And that's assuming they need only rent and not mental health or other services.