• drewofdoom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How about we do both? Continue to fund Ukraine in order to provide a stopgap against Russian encroachment and destabilization of Eastern Europe, as well as take care of people in America? It wouldn’t even be that hard.

    Tax the rich so they pay their fair share. Use that money to fund social programs and boost the economy for the middle class and lower. Tax businesses to the point where it’s more lucrative to reinvest in their own companies than it is to make massive profits - this promotes raising wages. Cap executive pay to a fixed rate above the lowest-paid employee. Just like that, the ‘richest country in the world’ can act like it and not relegate their poorest to third-world conditions.

    But you weren’t interested in a real answer, were you? Just shilling for the alt-right and Russia.

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      1 year ago

      The funny thing is…we don’t even need to tax the rich…we just need to stop spending like the CC has no limit…so much wasted funding goes through middle man style private companies and just gets abused… it’s insane.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, I’m not really interested in reigning in spending on things like social programs. I do think the military could get slashed by a very large amount, however. Especially considering how much military contractors over-inflate the cost of absolutely everything they sell the US government. Instead, I’d rather we just pay for the stuff we want to do by decreasing the wage gap by a VERY large margin and fixing the business tax code.

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          1 year ago

          Over half the budget is social programs though, they’re just no effective because they’re dolled out to a lot of private businesses.