The bulk of it actually goes to paying for social programs, Medicare and Medicaid, welfare and student loans (though … student loans are bullshit as a concept) and education.
Unless you count the unpaid taxes of the wealthy as a direct expenditure of our budget, then yes in a roundabout way it’s subsidizing the wealthy first then social programs in America THEN bombing brown people in other parts of the world.
We just spare no expense on the last bit, unfortunately.
Social programs only exist to the extent they do as a wealth subsidy. Paying so low or scheduling hours such that people are on government benefits is subsidizing what the wealthy should be paying people. Medicare and Medicaid are ways to give money to middlemen instead of just directly paying for care. Until Biden they literally weren’t allowed to negotiate prices as every other form of health insurance does. All of these are bullshit concepts. Student loans aren’t even run by the government just paid by us while a third party servicer reaps the money and as you note shouldn’t exist. All developed countries do miles better in all these areas than the US.
It also goes to subsidizing the wealthy. Can’t forget that.
The bulk of it actually goes to paying for social programs, Medicare and Medicaid, welfare and student loans (though … student loans are bullshit as a concept) and education.
Unless you count the unpaid taxes of the wealthy as a direct expenditure of our budget, then yes in a roundabout way it’s subsidizing the wealthy first then social programs in America THEN bombing brown people in other parts of the world.
We just spare no expense on the last bit, unfortunately.
Social programs only exist to the extent they do as a wealth subsidy. Paying so low or scheduling hours such that people are on government benefits is subsidizing what the wealthy should be paying people. Medicare and Medicaid are ways to give money to middlemen instead of just directly paying for care. Until Biden they literally weren’t allowed to negotiate prices as every other form of health insurance does. All of these are bullshit concepts. Student loans aren’t even run by the government just paid by us while a third party servicer reaps the money and as you note shouldn’t exist. All developed countries do miles better in all these areas than the US.