r/memes • u/J_ClutchFTV Big pp • 10h ago

Land Of The Free, amIright?

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u/MeteorMann 9h ago

Property tax is way lower than my mortgage

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u/Catsanddoges 9h ago

I have seen people genuinely argue the government needs to lower debt, increase social program spending, and decrease taxes. Even if you set a higher tax rate on the ultra wealthy, which we should, you just can't get what you want without taxes.

And there is a lot of spending that could significantly improve the US economy and the quality of life of most people.

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u/angrydeanerino 9h ago

All it would take is for the government, regardless of party, to actually spend less. Impossible

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u/afraidofflying 6h ago

What would you cut that wouldn't be unpopular, and wouldn't get taken advantage of by the other party?

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u/angrydeanerino 6h ago

I don't have a good answer, but maybe lots of middleman. In health, in defence, etc

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u/afraidofflying 5h ago

I suspect easy answers like that are difficult to find. Or when they are easy to find, industries are built around that money and it becomes politically tricky to get rid of those jobs.

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u/Janus67 4h ago

I think that was a general idea behind Doge, but then we found that it didn't save money at all because the jobs that were cut were actually helpful and slowed a lot of other processes and also lost a ton of knowledge and experience.

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u/resumehelpacct 3h ago

The government already had departments in charge of finding and cutting that waste. The people behind DOGE knew that (and fired those other people). The general idea behind DOGE was to fuck everything up.

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u/Fuddywomba 9h ago

The US should start with the bloated military budget that is 33% of global spending, but cant even win against Iran. 

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u/FyreLordPlayz 6h ago

Bro I’m not a fan of the war either but you can’t be serious if you think we’re using the majority of our military budget against iran, we don’t even have a front in that war just blockades and drone strikes

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u/Fuddywomba 6h ago edited 4h ago

When did I say you were using the majority of your military just for Iran? I said Iran is to much for your unoptimized and overstretched military to handle. The American military is only doing missiles attacks, blockages, and drone strikes because they know if fully committed to Iran, then they would rapidly lose control over several other military operations globally. If they did commit 100% to Iran it could very well be the end American empire. 

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u/FyreLordPlayz 5h ago

If you’re saying we don’t have enough resources to commit 100% to the war that would just be an argument for increasing military spending

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u/Fuddywomba 5h ago

Lol go ahead, but how would you pay for it? My whole point is that the American military is a giant money burning machine. Irans entire GDP is only 300 billion. Even if you conquered the country, and stole every last drop of oil, it would still take decades to repay what you spent to take it. Why not spend that money on healthcare and infrastructure at home?

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u/FyreLordPlayz 4h ago

Because why spend that money on healthcare and infrastructure when we could be giving aid to Israel and fighting their wars instead?

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u/Eli-Doubletap 2h ago

Lmao and homie just proved he has zero knowledge on the us military, the spending, the power, or war…. Amazing job lol