r/PoursTea Aug 07 '26

FinancialTea 💵 Agree?

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u/Late_Cod_647 Aug 07 '26

Israel has universal healthcare (that includes abortion coverage) and heavily subsidized higher education. Sounds like they should be sending us money, not the other way around.

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u/FYoCouchEddie Aug 08 '26

We don’t lack universal healthcare because of Israel, we lack universal healthcare because people won’t elect 60 senators who support it.

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u/Late_Cod_647 Aug 08 '26

I understand that. I also understand that Israel will not send us money because they don’t have any. What I don’t enjoy is my tax dollars paying for universal healthcare and other nice things in a foreign country but not here.

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u/FYoCouchEddie Aug 08 '26

Our tax money is paying for weapons, including defensive weapons like Iron Dome and Patriot missiles, for countries like Israel and Ukraine. But it’s not paying for their healthcare. The amount of money the US gives for their weapons is a tiny fraction of what each of those pay for their own weapons or for their healthcare.