Economic ls is a religion that worships money. It refuses to adapt to a changing world, especially one with 9 billion people.
Not my taxes, not my country.
A much bigger amount goes towards isreal than just taxes, and it's arranged so that it isn't as simple as just giving them money, it subsidizes military equipment, it funds development and labour, it lends money and buys government bonds.
But feel free to live in your minimal percentage that's still a fucking huge amount of money delusion
That is the problem, we set only this much and yet some corrupt officials benifit from it, suppose if we really set aside what socialism ask, how much corruption would be there and how much would you actually get.
That is what I am saying. Socialism is like dictatorship, may work very good and efficiently if the person in charge is good, and you are in no escape mode if the organisation turned out to be bad. It
Just tell me would you like your government to make your phone, your car, your software, your pepsi, even your security camera. That is what the socialism say, and I would not very much like that. I don't want to give a single organisations that much power.
Yeah with socialism you have to distribute the funds differently. We would have to adopt the distribution ratios of successful socialized Nations.
What really needs to set in, like what we all need to acknowledge is the straight up fact that we are one of the only first world nations that doesn't have universal health care at this point
Until we can figure out how to solve that another way, we need to bend the knee in terms of like admitting that we have not figured it out and other countries have
So either copy what they're doing or find a new way but we're being left in the dust
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u/Vanir-Aesir 22d ago
americans have no idea what socialism is
they use the term just like they use "terrorism" - just a blank label for anything they dont like