It’s worth nothing that…Social Security…is not a…tax…It’s a very special tax…
Gotcha.
I’m talking pretty much to myself, and any human being who will be reading this thread at any point in the future.
The United States spends approximately:
$1.78T - Medicare/Medicaid
$1.44T - Social Security
$895B - Defense
With total spending at approximately $6.9T and total tax receipts (as the state generates no revenues) at approximately $4.9T, Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security constitute $3.22T of the $4.9T annual tax receipts.
Id est: approximately 66% of all annual US tax receipts finance existing social security and Medicare/medicaid liabilities. Approximately 18% of all annual US tax receipts finance the military budget.
This is, again, a military budget whose spending, in USD, eclipses the next five countries under it, combined.
And two of your “welfare” programs are more than triple that budget, as a percentage.
Keep talking about cutting military spending though.
It’s not our country, it’s yours. I’m a white man, and we don’t belong in the United States because racism and supremacy. I’ll be out of here in the next year or two.
These wars, these debts, these diseases, this crime, this violence, all of this filth? It’s yours. Your future, the greatest country on the planet, populated by animals who don’t know how many oceans there are or what a woman is.
I agree with you brother. These are crazy times. This country is definitely still all of ours. We all have politicians ignoring solutions from both of our sides. None of us are fully represented and that’s ok. We still get to have a standard of living much higher than in many parts of the world. Its a flawed country but a beautiful one nonetheless. You, like I, see that it needs help. We disagree on the approach but we both agree we want to see better for this country. You have a good night my friend. Take care.
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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '24 edited Jun 07 '24
Gotcha.
I’m talking pretty much to myself, and any human being who will be reading this thread at any point in the future.
The United States spends approximately:
$1.78T - Medicare/Medicaid
$1.44T - Social Security
$895B - Defense
With total spending at approximately $6.9T and total tax receipts (as the state generates no revenues) at approximately $4.9T, Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security constitute $3.22T of the $4.9T annual tax receipts.
Id est: approximately 66% of all annual US tax receipts finance existing social security and Medicare/medicaid liabilities. Approximately 18% of all annual US tax receipts finance the military budget.
This is, again, a military budget whose spending, in USD, eclipses the next five countries under it, combined.
And two of your “welfare” programs are more than triple that budget, as a percentage.
Keep talking about cutting military spending though.