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No, everyone's budget needs to get cut. EVERYONE.

• piva00 1y ago
  Perhaps there are more structural elements to be tackled where cuts won't be enough to balance the budget. Starting with Medicaid/Medicare since it's a huge expenditure: why even bother running a system that has worse outcomes and is more expensive than a single-payer/socialised system? There are many models to follow from successful countries, almost all of them would be cheaper than the current one, the population already pays for healthcare insurance, turn it into a tax to spread the insurance pool over the whole population, it's been proven to work. Why not expand tax income instead of giving tax cuts to corporations and rich folks? It seems like the current arrangement is bankrupting the country, less public investment will cripple potential revenues of undiscovered technology, it's rare that a major new advancement comes straight out of private industry, they're usually pretty good at monetising public research (such as NASA, DARPA, etc.), why continuously give them tax cuts to then defund the whole foundation that actually enables them to even exist?