IF ONLY that were true. In addition to building/maintaining infrastructure, investing in science and so on, we should be taking care of our people, not fighting wars for Israel or giving tax breaks to billionaires. The troubled assets relief program aka the near trillion dollars bailout for banks, Jeff Bezos not paying taxes when he's the richest man in the world... all THAT is okay apparently. Anyhow I WISH 60% (or more) of our tax revenue actually did go toward taking care of our people. That should be the role of the state.
"Welfare" i.e. cash payments to the poor don't exist and haven't since the 90's when they were cut under the Clinton administration. This is common knowledge. The only thing similar we have is SSI for the disabled which is near impossible to get without getting a lawyer, and, even if you CAN get it, it's only like $800 per month in 2018 which you can't even live on. Yeah, welfare mammies sure are livin' large. All this ignores that many of those people are legit disabled and NEED that money.
Section-8 is a voucher that covers part of your rent. It isn't "free housing" contrary to popular belief, and again it's very difficult to get on as waiting lists are long. Food stamps are cut if you're on them for more than a year or two. It's been proven Medicaid for all would actually save us money, and the only reason our medical care is as expensive as it is (far more expensive than in the rest of the developed world) is because of the "profit motive" that Libertarians are always jerking off over allowing pharmaceutical companies and other entities in the medical field charge whatever they want. And they do because they can.
The reality is that we don't have much of a safety net in this country. That we have so many homeless is proof enough of that. If you're angry at poor people on welfare but you aren't angry rich people who get more in corporate welfare and who have created all of this inequity in the first place... You're part of the problem with America.
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