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Originally Posted by Ptmcbriz
I think it irresponsible to be adding trillions more to the debt. Why don’t we cut corporate welfare? The true definition of socialism. Why have we been subsidizing fossil fuels, agriculture, technology over and over for decades , yet a child getting a free lunch at school is the problem. The multi millionaire and billionaires are making record profits as CEO’s yet typically pay a much lower percentage in taxes due to many loopholes. If I pay 20% in taxes, then it’s reasonable for a billionaire to pay at least 20% but most pay a much smaller % due to deductions. The 20% impacting me, is the same impact on a billionaire. That money would would greatly increase the federal government’s income which would make our problems much less. A first world country takes care of its citizens. It’s only 3rd world countries that don’t take care of their citizens. That’s the benefit of living in a wealthy advanced country. The more poor and homeless you have the uglier the country becomes both physically and financially. It becomes much more crime ridden and dirty. First world countries all create safety nets for their citizens. That’s the benefit of an advanced country. Yet somehow we continue to go backwards towards the 1930’s when there were less protections for citizens and more abuse of citizens by corporations. This is crazy.
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Backwards? Lol, this country has been too generous to the poor in that we now have many more ablebodied who have found they can survive without working and many have taken the sad route of drugs.
People in the USA have become lazy so we had to bring in people who know how to work. And in 5 years or the next generation the US will have the same problem because that group of workers will have figured out the system of "getting a higher education" and not performing physical labor. Do you then bring in millions more to work to reach the same conclusion?
This touting of the poor is ridiculous when only a certain percentage of Americans are footing the bill for the rest. What did one think would happen when employers hire under the table and not providing healthcare benefits, decent wages, not paying into the SS system, no retirement benefits or 401 contributions to these off-the-record hirees.
Those poor you are mentioning are a good portion of that population along with those who work the system. Then we have the number of unwed mothers and fatherless children that need supporting. How about no children if you can't care for and feed them?
I am truly supportive of those who are poor and need extra help but there are millions of people in that hot air balloon basket that don't belong there and it ain't gonna fly no more.