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Less than one percent of 1.5% of $7 trillion, around $1 billion. Which is a significant sum, no doubt, but that's also less than $3/person in the US. Given the
by Jtsummers 1y ago
Less than one percent of 1.5% of $7 trillion, around $1 billion. Which is a significant sum, no doubt, but that's also less than $3/person in the US. Given the much larger wasted sums by DOD and other parts of the government, it's an amount I can live with. I'd rather see the real waste and abuse get addressed first, but it won't be. Address this, but address it in a way that doesn't cause undue harm to the 40.8 million people that aren't abusing the system.
- spullara 1y agosocial programs are 60% of the budget, defense is down to 13%.
- SigmundA 1y agoWho would have thought health care and retirement is more expensive than wars, it seems like that should be telling us something about priorities.
- weird-eye-issue 1y agoAgreed with everything you said, but people would say the exact same thing about some of the more wasteful programs that were shutdown. "It is only $50 million" etc got really old... It is not like you can expect to just find massive line items that can be easily removed
- SigmundA 1y agoYeah I mean they could pay for the new ballroom or two and have some money left over by not feeding those scammy undeserving people. Or even better we could give some more money to Argentina.
- weird-eye-issue 1y agoBrilliant logical fallacies
- jmye 1y agoSome of those items were about feeding starving kids, others weren’t. Perhaps we shouldn’t pretend that anyone equating them is saying something worth listening to or taking remotely seriously. Ahem.
- alwillis 1y agoSNAP recipients (about 42 million people) receive between $6-$10 per day in food assistance. $42 to $70 per week for groceries doesn't go very far in today's economy.
- Jtsummers 1y agoI'm not sure what you're responding to in my comment, but I think it's the $3/person bit. That's taking the approximately $1 billion and dividing it over all 340+ million people in the US. I'm saying that we have to have an average of $3/person in tax revenue to cover this apparent fraud (I don't trust this administration at all so I won't say anything other than "apparent").
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