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Infrastructure yea. Human capital is not improved by letting people live on the public dime. Human capital is improved by allowing them maximum opportunity. Founding of dederal dept of education was followed by an absolute rotting out of the public school system. More govt can and does make things work. Where i live, education is paid for with state and property taxes. We pay for the electrical grid with our utility bills, same for water, roads are property taxes for local and gas taxes for highways. Transportation? Everyone pays for their transportation, if it's public, charge what it costs (but you know they waste half their money, look at the MTA). But all those things don't cost anywhere near 7 trillion dollars

@patternote @spinfisher Not the governments job NOPE. but it is the GOVERNMENT’S job to MAINTAIN and IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURE and its HUMAN CAPITAL. Otherwise your nation rots. Electrical grid? Water? Roads. Transportation. Education? FOOD SUPPLY. The country is rotting. Not even having kids

If the US eliminated defense spending except for basic defense, the US would pay off its 31 trillion dollars debt in the time of a typical home mortgage.

@bellastrega999 @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab It's a horrible way to live, it handicaps your future generations and makes society worse. You can't work be cause it will never pay the same as the public dime. You don't think that fact on its own is messed up?

@patternote @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab And I believe you do. But you know deep down inside it is not the ideal way to live and there is nothing luxurious about it. It’s not a better life. 20-25% of ppl receive assistance, I can’t imagine the majority are taking advantage of that.

OMG I don't care, some of us have real struggles instead of constantly trying to shit on poor people

Also interest on debt comes from all the other spending categories. So for the purposes of this exercise you have to fold it back in. $2.5 trillion ss and Medicare 1 trillion medicaid and health 1 trillion income security 1 trillion defense 1 trillion interest on debt 500 billion govt operations Excluding interest on debt, that's 4.5/6 trillion on social programs. Yes I'm counting social security and medicaid. Even if you make 20k a year you're better off investing in a retirement acc than paying SS

@patternote @spinfisher That’s not true. Patternote. Social Spending from taxes other than Social Security and Medicare is about ONE THIRD of the military total spend - wages, benefits, weapons….pensions. Go to OMB website and do the math.

@Crushemsparty @spinfisher Excluding social security and Medicare. The programs that will be bankrupt when it's my turn. That's 15.3% of my income i could invest better than the government ever could

@ForgiatoBlow47 Yes, especially if you have children. Breaking into someone's home is a home invasion and a threat to life. You don't know if he's hiding a weapon or will just grab a knife from your kitchen

SHOULD YOU BE ALLOWED TO SHOOT A PERSON WHO HAS BROKEN INTO YOUR HOUSE, EVEN IF THEY'RE UNARMED?

@PrismaHates @ApexImperialist @reddit_lies @grok You do hate taxes i see. Reasonable man

@patternote @ApexImperialist @reddit_lies @grok Fair and reasonable. Guess it's just up to one's opinion

The smugness of the average Euroid is only matched by its ignorance.

@PrismaHates @ApexImperialist @reddit_lies @grok Which is why i didn't argue with you, i know europe has its perks

@bellastrega999 @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab Because I'm not a crook. That's not how i want to raise my child. I have good values i want to instill in him. Living on the public dime is degenerate behavior

@patternote @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab If it’s a better life why not live it?

@bellastrega999 @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab The price is what the market is willing to pay for it. They can't just drive up prices at will. They don't have that kind of price setting power.

@patternote @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab It isn’t the fact that they are buying them; it’s the fact that are making them more expensive than they are worth.

@PrismaHates @ApexImperialist @reddit_lies @grok It's really a matter of values and priorities

@patternote @ApexImperialist @reddit_lies @grok You're actually right on that one. Still, Europe is a better place to live in my opinion based on life expectancy, crime stats and overall preferences

@bellastrega999 @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab If you add up section 8, ebt, free medical insurance, welfare, it can easily be 4000 a month (in addition to the cash income). Many Americans not on public assistance can only dream of that

@TheRavenScalar @patternote @colleenaschwab Because section 8 is luxurious

@TheRavenScalar @bellastrega999 @colleenaschwab Corporations buy more apt buildings than single family homes. Easy cash cow. Hell, that's what i would do if i had the capital

@bellastrega999 @patternote @colleenaschwab The corporations loooove section 8 housing. The gov basically stuffs their pockets with cash while you and I pay insanely more tax lol. Again the crackhead with the Benz gets a better deal on rent

@PrismaHates @ApexImperialist @reddit_lies @grok You have more economic mobility, larger living spaces, and higher income in the US. It's a mixed bag. Not sure what criteria the index uses, but if it optimizes for socialist goals, you can't expect america to be on top

@patternote @ApexImperialist @reddit_lies @grok So, as Grok has just said, Europe does have a better QoL

We can always build more in a regulatory friendly environment. But that's only 1 factor. Would still be affordable if interest rates and property taxes were more leveled. My rate is 4.8% and i pay 800 in interest, current rates would push that to 1100. My property taxes and insurance also went up by 100 a month. If i were to rent my house out under current conditions, i would have to charge an extra 400 to cover it, potentially making it too expensive to even bring to market. One less unit means other units can charge more.

@patternote @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab Corporations are out bidding homes & apartments for their own tax benefits while raising the prices considerably high, making it hard for people to afford.

@bellastrega999 @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab My state income taxes are 4%, i don't really mind that. Was 10% in NYC between state and city, that i minded

@patternote @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab Ah I was just thinking about state taxes I didn’t realize property taxes also went to those. You don’t agree with ss, Medicare or Medicaid ?

SS is a pretty terrible program. It never gets invested, it never grows, you just take from young to pay old. Someone getting 1200 from SS would get 2700 if the money went into a retirement account instead. Retirement accounts can also be used for long term medical care. Don't forget that what you pay is only half, your employer doubles that for a total of 15.3%. Imagine if it just went to buy stocks or real estate instead for your retirement fund. Medicaid spends 12000 per person, so not efficient. In principal I'm not against it, but there are better solutions for healthcare them feeding an administrative heavy system. I would like to be able to afford my own health insurance, currently 800 a month (why its cheaper than medicaid is beyond me)

@spinfisher Lol maybe help you. It's not the govts job to take from A to give to B. FDR had to introduce income taxes to the poor and middle classes, without which there is no welfare state. Dems always say they want to tax the rich but their actions tell a different story

@patternote But why would we do that? Government is created by us to help us. Silly little person.

@bellastrega999 @TheRavenScalar @colleenaschwab And property taxes and rents are up be cause 10 million people who Biden let in illegally. Driving up costs across localities and eating up the housing stock

@TheRavenScalar @patternote @colleenaschwab The high cost of literally everything is because the government cares more about corporate interests. The reason your food is expensive, the reason bills are expensive, the reason people can’t afford homes. They allow corps to take advantage of us w/o repercussions.

No because the government wastes our money. Food is expensive because it's more expensive to produce, bills are higher be cause of green energy regulations and pushing everyone onto the electric grid, people can't afford homes because higher material costs, regulation, property taxes and interest rates (thanks to Bidens inflation). Also tens of millions of Americans are invested in these corps. Maybe we should let poor people keep their FULL paycheck and encourage financial literacy, so they can invest in those corps too and maybe have a chance to not be poor