An astounding amount of our government goes towards taking care of old people, yet it still feels like there is basically no safety net for them.
TBF taxes on billionaires would go under individual taxes. And corporate taxes are relatively easy to fudge because corporations aren't real except on paper.
TBF you should really put more effort into "figuring it out" because you did not figure it out ..
i will give you a hint:
who is getting represented ?
It's a technical detail people might not have been aware of, and I've pointed it out. I'm going to disengage rather than defend a viewpoint I don't even necessarily hold.
but who is getting represented ?
aktive income
or passiv income , just guess , or is it scary.. ?
No matter how you tax there isn't 300+ billion of income to find. Endless new debt isn't sustainable.
Endless US debt is fine, provided there keeps being interest in the US dollar as a reserve currency. The US national debt is simply the difference between money printed and money collected. As long as the US dollar “disappears” into the global economy (which it does), inflation is kept under check.
Military numbers seem grossly undervalued
$83 billion per month is almost $1 trillion per year. That sounds about right.
Right I thought the average size of a defense budget was just under a trillion lol
We don't know their dark money shush fund income or expenditure, and guess who's never passed an audit?
I would be shocked if they were earning a significant amount compared to federal funding. This is monthly, if you missed that like OP.
The US has a problem of representation. Specifically and especially since the Citizens United decision, corporate interests can easily flow money towards politicians to make them do just about anything they want. This exacerbated an existing problem with the corporate tax rate and has now brought it into laughably low territory.
That's all an oversimplification of course, but it's not that Americans haven't "figured it out". It is far more complicated than that.
exactly ,
Passiv Income has 100% of the Delegates and the 2 Major partys ,
while Active Income has no Represenative at all...
Thank you. I'm getting quite tired of people posting the most fucking obvious takes about problems in the US, then going "why haven't americans fixed this? are they stupid?", when we have exceedingly small control over the actions of our shitass policy makers.
It's some real "everyone is dumb except for me" energy.
Yet somehow most Americans think they are a democracy
Someone defending the US few weeks ago said: "decisions are made by those who show up and vote".
No, decisions are made by those who hold economic and political power. That is NOT the citizenry of capitalist dictatorships. Having elections also serves a lot of ideological functions like:
USians spent 4.5 TRILLION dollars on healthcare in 2022.
Or 375 billion/month, given the month scale in the above image
Oh, we've known. There just isn't anything we can do about it.
You can organize.
Like we did with Occupy Wall Street or are doing now for Palestine?
No, harder. Much, much harder.
OWS crumbled in ways right out of various leaked three letter agency guides to disrupting grass roots movements.
I'd love to see it get another try, with how news sources have become far more decentralized. Less opportunity for major news orgs to kill the momentum.
Full disclosure, the destruction of OWS is pretty much the one thing I allow myself to go "full tinfoil hat" over.
Covid protests and jan6... There is a always some fed running this things even ifntheu start organically.
Imagine if americans were as excited to shoot politicians as they get about shooting kids in school
There is a reason why one happens and the other doesn't.
buissness is getting squezed . also the current minority...
Estate taxes is woefully small. There should be a 100% death tax on all assets after $1M, excluding a single home.
Most have, increasingly so, they just lack strong orgs. As Imperialism decays, more will be forced to grapple with reality.
This graph gives the false impression that federal taxes actually pay for anything.
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