• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      People like you would go after pennies in the name of downplaying the debt. There are bigger fish to fry in the budget than not having universal healthcare. Let’s look at the oil subsidies, telecom subsidies, in fact give every single one a good glance over. I’m certain we can save enough billions to pay for healthcare multiple times over.

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      Maybe stop paying $1.5 trillion dollars to the military industrial complex serving Israel, Wall St, military contractors and big oil.

      And maybe stop giving the rich tax breaks on generational wealth and capital gains.

      We only need a homeland defense force. That’s it. $100-150 billion a year is plenty. If we stopped the disgusting amount of military spending, we could have modern safety nets just like Europe.