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White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households. (www.whitehouse.gov)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/workreform@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Manageable conceptual dollars if you want some basic fun math, look up the cost of the US Army (only army mind you) apache program, and then pull the numbers for the cost of Snap benefits for the entire country.

It is a priorities issue, not a money issue. I can't be more clear in this; the government "for the people, by the people" no longer gives a single solitary fuck about any person. It is an oligarchy, kleptocracy, corporate-ocracy pick a name. That is not my opinion, it's an observable, demonstrable, objectively true statement.

Military and government sponsored billionaire class.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Take it one step further: money is nothing but information about the priorities a society places on distribution of material and labor. Framed this way the perennial question of “where will the money come from” is absurd-the money comes from the consensus that we should do a thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    profit issue imho. if the owning classes could profit and gain as much hegemony from healthcare and benefits as they do with a relatively easy “blow up brown children” weapons system… we’d have healthcare.

    the problem is capitalism

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