Nowhere GirlMay 16

One of the things Americans fail to understand, because nobody tells them and politicians don't want them to know, is that the government can spend $10k on someone or something now (e.g., UBI, healthcare) and save itself hundreds of thousands in the future -- or even "profit" in the sense of higher productivity and tax revenues.

Instead, we live in a country that insists on spending $150 million on cops to prevent $104,000 in lost subway fares.

Show threadNowhere Girl
Likewise, we waste more money on means testing and bureaucracy for social programs than it would cost to just give people benefits.
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Show threadBridge&Tunnel JeffMay 16
@gwynnion I would love it if liberals understood that means testing any benefit is a right-wing method to gut benefits by making them almost inaccessible to the poor/working class. The time and effort they'd have to spend just to prove they deserve the benefits are simply too much.
Show threadNowhere GirlMay 16
@jf_718 The problem is I think the "liberal" politicians do understand it and agree with it.
Show threadBridge&Tunnel JeffMay 16
@gwynnion Oh, I was referring to liberals in general. "Liberal" politicians are most definitely right-wing.
Show threadNowhere GirlMay 16
@jf_718 But liberals keep voting for them. 🤔
Show threadBridge&Tunnel JeffMay 16
@gwynnion Propaganda works, fear-mongering works and liberals are as easily manipulated by these as MAGA. Most liberals still believe it was the left who lost them the election.
Show threadLog 🪵May 17
@jf_718 @gwynnion And also punish working over the table during the remaining waking hours of the day not spent standing in queues and filling in forms with the same information over and over again by reducing whatever benefits are grudgingly given.
Show threadpurple despairsMay 18

@gwynnion ‘but what if people could already afford heating/$thing and don't need that extra money!’

Ah but you see, that's what tax is for!