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You're missing the point. Sure, they can do that sort of thing from time to time to make people like you happy, but the primary spending of government, as in,
by dnautics 5y ago
You're missing the point.
Sure, they can do that sort of thing from time to time to make people like you happy, but the primary spending of government, as in, "to do shit", cannot be structured like that.
Are you arguing that 100% of government spending should be stimulus checks?
- AnthonyMouse 5y ago100% of government printing money should be.
- dnautics 5y agoso, just to be clear: what you are saying, is all government services, bureaucratic expenditures, military budget, FBI budget, Education, Energy, social services, social security shortfall, disaster relief, interest payments on the debt, medicare, universal health care, and so forth should come entirely from the collected tax base. Perhaps we can even be very careful about this, to avoid politicians abusing "projected revenue" by mandating all of these line-item expenses of the government in any given year cannot exceed the previous year's tax revenue? And if the government decides to exceed that figure, 100% of the overshoot must be somehow redistributed to the people, directly. I'd be down. Count me in on your reform program.
- diffeomorphism 5y agoYou are missing the point even more. The point is: for situations where the government is giving out just money (e.g. subsidies for buying cars, stimulus etc.), it is better to give it to people who use it than to people who hoard it. > are you arguing that... Why is there all this straw lying around?