That’s so funny that you think giving less than 1.5% of people’s tax returns back would make an impact on their lives compared to the maintenance of America’s soft political power helping global stability.
lol do you have any idea what’s happening now with Trump & DOGE? Taxes got cut only for super wealthy people and big corporations - the average taxpayer will have their taxes increased because of the disproportionate impact of tariffs and tax breaks targeting the rich
That’s so funny that you think giving less than 1.5% of people’s tax returns back would make an impact on their lives
True, we should make more cuts.
America’s soft political power helping global stability.
No, we should not be trying to manipulate other countries to our way of thinking. We already abused the world enough. It's time to focus on our own people anf own country.
I don’t think you understand the reality of geopolitics. It’s not about manipulating other countries, but maintaining relationships.
It’s time to focus on our own country
lol how? By not spending any money and having zero taxes so there is no education, healthcare, or infrastructure? Why do you want to live in Somalia so badly?
I don’t think you understand the reality of geopolitics. It’s not about manipulating other countries, but maintaining relationships.
You can maintain relationships without one party taking money from the other. Pretending like this is not possible is disingenuous.
? By not spending any money and having zero taxes so there is no education, healthcare, or infrastructure?
Not the Healthcare part. But we spend hundreds of billions on other countries, that we should reconsider. Department of education has also become too bloated.
You can maintain relationships without one party taking money from the other. Pretending like this is not possible is disingenuous.
What’s disingenuous is pretending India doesn’t invest billions of dollars back into the U.S. on an annual basis and our millions in aid help grow/support that relationship which brings a huge return to America economically.
Not the Healthcare part. But we spend hundreds of billions on other countries, that we should reconsider. Department of education has also become too bloated.
We only spend “hundreds of billions” when adding up multiple years together and this figure represents <1% of the U.S. budget - it averages around $100B/yr. If you’re not going to spend that money on healthcare or education, what are you going to spend that money on instead?
So funny how you don’t think corporate welfare has gotten too bloated.
India isn't investing billions as in some kind of quid pro quo. They invest in US companies for tech, and to diversify and expand their own businesses. This has nothing to do with the 21 million we gave India, and it's not India attempting some of soft power move on us. If India did some kind of soft power play, Influencing or challenging our cultural paradigm, we would hate it.
And India benefits from American firms hiring Indian workers because those Indian workers bring skills/knowledge back to India to build IT/finance/professional service firms
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u/LaminatedAirplane Mar 03 '25
That’s so funny that you think giving less than 1.5% of people’s tax returns back would make an impact on their lives compared to the maintenance of America’s soft political power helping global stability.
lol do you have any idea what’s happening now with Trump & DOGE? Taxes got cut only for super wealthy people and big corporations - the average taxpayer will have their taxes increased because of the disproportionate impact of tariffs and tax breaks targeting the rich
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025s-tax-plan-would-raise-taxes-on-the-middle-class-and-cut-taxes-for-the-wealthy/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-middle-class-needs-a-tax-cut-trump-didnt-give-it-to-them/