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look you were able to find $2.4trillion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and your economy didn't collapse. that is 10% of your total national debt. this is not
by celticninja 7y ago
look you were able to find $2.4trillion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and your economy didn't collapse. that is 10% of your total national debt. this is not going to cost that much (and even if it does it's money better spent than on those wars).
now you are asking how do you pay it back? well you could start by taxing some of the ~600 billionaires that live there. the top eight richest billionaires own as much combined wealth as "half the human race".
so it's not like there isn't a pot of money there, and taking some of it certainly is not going to cause those people hardship. now you look at some of the major corporations and they're very low tax compared to revenue and profit and you have another pot of money that you can access again without causing too much hardship on the company.
the money is out there it's just very unfairly distributed.
- thefunnyman 7y agoI completely agree. It's incredible to me how many people in this and similar threads argue that we should just give up on isolation and allow many more millions to die. This pandemic is the perfect argument for UBI and universal healthcare and yet many are still unwilling to even entertain such ideas. Human life is worth saving and we have the means.