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like trillion dollar bank bailouts, subsidies awarded through ruinous competition among jurisdictions, trillions and trillions of dollars of defense spending fo
by bigger_inside 3y ago
like trillion dollar bank bailouts, subsidies awarded through ruinous competition among jurisdictions, trillions and trillions of dollars of defense spending for which the government will invent endless wars.. like that?
- robertlagrant 3y agoIf you like, you can look at the data[0] I'm looking at. 15% on defence; 67% on health and related; education; social security; etc. [0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
- jokethrowaway 3y agoSure, let's assume 100B What's the value provided to citizens by spending 67B on health in the USA in terms of value provided? 10B in a country where prices are not the result of insurance companies colluding with the government?
- robertlagrant 3y agoI'm replying to this: > Government money is a direct pipe to transnational corporations and the billionaires that run it. Welfare payments are peanuts compared to it. I don't see the point in hypotheticals. You're restating the politics you've absorbed over years of consuming a certain slant of media. There's no point in that, and no point in me doing the same.