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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Accurate except for the “instead” part. Road maintenance comes from local taxes, whereas military aid comes from federal taxes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Sorry about all the broken veterans with TBIs. We could have invested in better healthcare infrastructure, TBI treatment research even better armor and helmets for our troopers dealing routinely with IEDs. But instead we got experimental tanks with active camo, a shitty plane which we're phasing out and aid to Israel to perpetuate their ancient religious genocide program.

It's just that US soldiers are poor and expendible and people with money tell us who and what is important.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well if you really want to get technical about it.... No programs or spending are really funded by taxes anyway, the government just says "OK" and the numbers in the bank accounts of the companies implementing said program go up. Taxes funding things is just a myth. Taxes just delete money. So technically, nothing is funded by taxes and taxes are just a money void.

Edit: People seem to be down voting because they think this is tinfoil hat BS or something. It's not. Look up modern monetary theory. Governments with fiat currency don't need to collect money to pay for things. They just invent and issue more currency. See this video: https://youtu.be/75udjh6hkOs?si=dVpp9V5f96kLDV4-&t=1628

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Except the feds also feed money back to the states to be used on things like roads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And there are literal laws of nature that would prevent that from ever changing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I mean, potholes in my area get fixed pretty quickly, because the local government takes its job relatively seriously.