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We so often talk about whether we should raise or lower taxes but we have to talk about transparency and how we ALLOCATE taxes We have more than enough money NOW to solve a lot of our problems, but the tax dollars don’t go to benefiting us
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Anonymous 8w

In an ideal world, I would be more than happy to pay my taxes as long as I saw it actually benefit me and my community around me

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Anonymous 8w

But.. if we help ourselves, how will we send money to Israel?

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Anonymous 8w

This is perhaps one of the smartest, most solution focused, posts I’ve seen in US Politics in weeks. Genuinely. Bravo OP. Disagree on paying more taxes comment but you do you.

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Anonymous 8w

Where do you think we can cut?

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Anonymous 8w

*we* don’t need to pay more, the ultra wealthy do. The ultra rich used to pay like 70% income tax and now they defacto pay like 0%. Yes there needs to be reallocation and transparency but taxes on the wealthy are legitimately artificiality low/lower than they’ve been basically ever in our history and it’s causing a massive deficit .

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Anonymous 8w

We collect $5.6 trillion in federal tax revenue annually. $2 trillion goes to Medicare/Medicaid. $1.7 trillion goes to social security. $1.1 trillion to pay interest on the debt. $0.65 trillion on income security. $0.3 trillion to pensions for federal employees. That already exceeds annual revenue without even factoring in defense or many other important programs. Which of these would you cut to pay for your preferred modes of spending?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Lmfao exactly 😭🙏

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Benjamin Netanyahu needs my tax dollars

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

He’s literally starving rn, he hasn’t consumed enough souls 💔

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

Let’s start with the near 4 billion we send to Israel. We could give middle schoolers free lunch

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Other things we could do- give teachers a raise. Fund national parks. Make more highschools/fund highschool education

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Four billion doesn’t move the needle. We’d still be spending $1.8 trillion more than we take in.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

I don’t wanna pay more either. We pay enough now to cover a lot of these problems is what I’m getting at, we have the money we just don’t use it responsible

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

For the things I specify said? Cause all of that was doable with the money we send to Israel

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 8w

The top marginal rate has very little impact on revenues. The cause of our deficit is spending.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

True. Got any additional brainstormed solutions? There was tremendous push back on DOGE… not that effective pushback, but there was pushback.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 8w

WE SEND BILLIONS TO ISREAL YEARLY

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

All foreign aid including what we give to Israel is less than 1% of the budget.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

If your paycheck is $1000/week and you spend $1500/week, cutting out a weekly $5 latte doesn’t mean that you have freed up $5 to spend.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

you see, the problem with this analogy The US is still already spending that money

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

You asked what we would cut to do those things from a list of bullshit. I give you a VERY direct answer that isn’t on your list of bullshit. And all the sudden, it’s “oh but we already spend so much” Fuck off dude. Let’s just both agree we shouldn’t spend that money on Israel. You should be happy with that right?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

It seems like you’re not actually concerned with fiscal solvency, you’re just obsessed with Israel.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

Also, a billion dollars is 1/100 of a trillion. So your analogy fails to even compare, it would be cutting $50 bucks

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 8w

Oh there’s a bunch of redundancy in American spending. Giving money to fund a genocide is just the most obvious

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 8w

I’ve said in the other comment what that less than 1% can fund

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

No, a trillion is 1,000 billion.

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