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> Italian usually don't benefit from "more tax money' Like Amazon would have used that money for the greater good instead. Like the US is much better at this,

> Italian usually don't benefit from "more tax money' Like Amazon would have used that money for the greater good instead. Like the US is much better at this, throwing trillions of public money in weapons while they can't seem to afford free public healthcare.

tyoma 5y ago
The US already spends twice as much on healthcare (around $1.5T) for existing public programs than it does on national defense (around $718B). Source: https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spending/categories/ https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...
- pietrovismara 5y ago
  I'm not sure if I'm misreading the chart, but Health sits just above National Defence, with $796.8 B (12%) of expense, not $1.5T. Anyway it only makes it more absurd; that the US as a nation manages to be the first military world power using less money than they spend to have a broken healthcare system that ruins people's lives.
  - xaqfox 5y ago
    It looks like Medicare spending was also included to arrive at $1.5T. A portion of "veteran's benefits" should probably also be included for the VA medical system.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> Like the US is much better at this, throwing trillions of public money in weapons while they can't seem to afford free public healthcare. The US can afford free public healthcare. It could probably afford free public healthcare with its current public healthcare spending (per capita it spends far more than most developed countries providing that, and per GDP it spends a similar amount), but instead it's spends hyper inefficiently so as to maintain a private healthcare system that costs even more on top of the public system. Weapons are irrelevant to that, though the US spends too much (and too inefficiently) on those, too.
maury91 5y ago
I'm not saying that Amazon shouldn't pay because they will use the money better. Mine was a response to the parent comment saying that the Italians will benefit from "tax money". I do believe that is good to tax/fine Amazon appropriately, I just don't believe that the Italian government will use that money for the benefits of the Italians.
- ausudhz 5y ago
  Unless you know better, this will also go to pay public health care and public education (among many other things as will be added money to the state revenue) The rest is just false allegations

tyoma 5y ago

The US already spends twice as much on healthcare (around $1.5T) for existing public programs than it does on national defense (around $718B). Source: https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spending/categories/ https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...

pietrovismara 5y ago
I'm not sure if I'm misreading the chart, but Health sits just above National Defence, with $796.8 B (12%) of expense, not $1.5T. Anyway it only makes it more absurd; that the US as a nation manages to be the first military world power using less money than they spend to have a broken healthcare system that ruins people's lives.
- xaqfox 5y ago
  It looks like Medicare spending was also included to arrive at $1.5T. A portion of "veteran's benefits" should probably also be included for the VA medical system.

dragonwriter 5y ago

> Like the US is much better at this, throwing trillions of public money in weapons while they can't seem to afford free public healthcare. The US can afford free public healthcare. It could probably afford free public healthcare with its current public healthcare spending (per capita it spends far more than most developed countries providing that, and per GDP it spends a similar amount), but instead it's spends hyper inefficiently so as to maintain a private healthcare system that costs even more on top of the public system. Weapons are irrelevant to that, though the US spends too much (and too inefficiently) on those, too.

maury91 5y ago

I'm not saying that Amazon shouldn't pay because they will use the money better. Mine was a response to the parent comment saying that the Italians will benefit from "tax money". I do believe that is good to tax/fine Amazon appropriately, I just don't believe that the Italian government will use that money for the benefits of the Italians.

ausudhz 5y ago
Unless you know better, this will also go to pay public health care and public education (among many other things as will be added money to the state revenue) The rest is just false allegations