
The top 1% pay around 38% of all income taxes. If you expand that to the top 10% (household making $250,000+ annually) then around 72% of all income taxes come from that group. The Laffer Curve eventually comes into play if you tax people too highly. They’re can afford to move their assets outside of your reach (ie, into other countries with kinder tax policies). The US currently has the most progressive tax system in the world.
The big beautiful blunder cut 3.5 million American citizens off food stamps when he eliminated 187 billion in federal funding to the program. That was one of many effects of the wide sweeping welfare cuts, such as the 900 billion cut from Medicaid by shifting eligibility to require an 80 hour work week for able bodied adults. Don’t pretend your side does a single fucking thing for the homeless or poor besides furthering their misery
In the US, a patient can receive a non emergency MRI within days or even hours. In Canada, the wait typically runs 10-16 weeks and can even last over 6 months. In that time, the incorrect healing of the patient can require a 2nd surgery to correct. There’s a reason the rich Canadians come here and pay cash for treatment. “Blabbing about shit you don’t understand” is quite an ironic statement being that you don’t understand anything you’re saying yourself
we are not doing on all or nothing kind of thing. we have infrastructure an funding to be able to help some people (when willing/able) until they can get back on their feet. You can’t get up off your feet without a support system if you’re homeless. The culture around being perceived as homeless (druggie slob etc) of homeless populations (addiction mainly) and even the lack of an address or showers force our people into homeless and cyclic battle of reoccurring homelessness.
Studies have shown that people with support systems like being able to crash back home with parents or a friends couch (a privilege many of us been lucky to have) or given some form of stability like temporary housing under sobriety conditions and so forth help more than anti homeless infrastructure! What are spikes going to do besides make things look pretty to hide the ugly in our society? We need to take care of our most vulnerable populations, especially bc our veterans make up a lot of it.
Hundreds of thousands of people have died so far due to USAID cuts, and 14 million are projected to die by 2030. Before Trump, USAID was less than 1% of the federal budget. Are you really fine with 14 million deaths to get that 1% back? And even if you don’t care about all those people dying, humanitarian aid is a huge part of smart foreign policy to build positive relationships with other countries.
The US is the largest donor of foreign aid and military help across the world so other countries can spend more on their own people with better infrastructure and so they can have their universal healthcare. It’s not horrible that we do the same so we can help ourselves and not put the interests of foreigners first. Ive been to the places where we send our money too and they have so many benefits Americans don’t because we subsidize it. Government is literally for the people not foreigners.
It’s simply not true that most of that aid was going to countries with better infrastructure than the US. USAID focused on stuff like feeding starving children, giving prenatal care to mothers in areas with no other clinics, giving people HIV medications. These people are literally starving to death. And we are not by a long shot the largest donor in proportion to our GDP.
I never said MOST of it goes to countries with Better infrastructure but I am saying they only have it because we subsidize it for them and keep other from invading them so they can worry about themselves while we defend them. USAID is not just focused on food it's literally helping prop up governments. USAID amount is not total aid we still give so much in military aid around the world and just other government agencies writing checks. Its not fair to Americans whatsoever.