> I'm tired how American Citizens don't have healthcare or houses yet our taxes goes to across the world, and the world isn't doing their fair share. This naiv

> I'm tired how American Citizens don't have healthcare or houses yet our taxes goes to across the world, and the world isn't doing their fair share. This naively assumes that US spending on its military is some sort of charity, and not something that the US does entirely to further its own aims. A stable global stage does benefit other countries, but it also massively benefits the US. The same applies to the things like US CDC's global disease surveillance programs - famously trimmed back in China a couple years before we had a pandemic that these very programs might've been able to contain.