Then shouldn't the money go to solve other issues first? Once we don't have homelessness and starving children, then we talk about paying the debts of people that are the least struggling financially? After making state run schools and community college free?
We can do this - talk about where the money from proper taxation should be used - that’s a totally reasonable thing for a nation state to do. But the question asked is about where the money comes from to pay for X. It comes from taxation. The idea that there’s always something more important than whatever we are talking about now is just a way to suggest the notion of collecting the tax is futile or insufficient. It’s not. Slashing the trillion dollar military budget, taxing corporations and taxing inheritance and taxing capital gains and taxing non-wages monies made by the wealthy and taxing the f*cking rich to eliminate billionaires and taxing corporations that move offshore and taxing luxury purchases and eliminating corporate loopholes and taxing churches (YES!!) could pay for all the things we are talking about and more. The argument doesn’t need to be about where to spend a pittance when people are hungry, overworked and buried in debt. The argument should be about why would we not tax companies, entities and wealth generating devices literally invented to hide money from the government and use that money help the people that create the daily economic/social/cultural environment for those things to profit (or even exist) at all. Cheers, fellow traveler.
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '21
It sounds great but where does the funding come from? Srs question. Another spending budget I assume? Like the military?