| OccultHawk |
06-27-2018 02:34 PM |
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Originally Posted by elphenor
(Post 1967031)
anything is possible depending on how much you're willing to tax, and how much you prioritize defense spending, at the end of the day the United States is a very wealthy country
anyone making over 100k a year gets taxed at marginal 90% and yeah you can afford the safety net and UBI, I just don't at all see entrepreneur Yang being for that
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We can drop Yang
But it’s only 300 Billion dollar addition to our budget
Take it entirely from the military
Plus if we switched to a single payer universal socialized health care system that would save us what? Another 200-300 billion.
Free and stop incarcerating people for victimless crimes
If we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour then the government wouldn’t have to pay out as much in food stamps (which is essentially a corporate subsidy because they couldn’t survive with a starving workforce) |
