First in The Independent: Mark Aaron Gatz, 65, is facing prison time in what one U.S. Forest Service officer described as ‘possibly one of the worst residential cases he has seen’
I don’t disagree with you that $20 billion is a drop in the federal bucket that would be returned tenfold in improved societal shifts and increases in economic output. I also don’t love farm subsidies, but in terms of places to pull $20 billion from, I’d rather start with investments in foreign countries committing genocide and then work our way over to the military budget if that doesn’t cover the entire bill.
I’m not saying that we should pull the money from crop insurance subsidies, just that we pay like $20 billion a year for a thing that most people have never heard about. We could similarly pay for this with as much gusto.
I don’t disagree with you that $20 billion is a drop in the federal bucket that would be returned tenfold in improved societal shifts and increases in economic output. I also don’t love farm subsidies, but in terms of places to pull $20 billion from, I’d rather start with investments in foreign countries committing genocide and then work our way over to the military budget if that doesn’t cover the entire bill.
I’m not saying that we should pull the money from crop insurance subsidies, just that we pay like $20 billion a year for a thing that most people have never heard about. We could similarly pay for this with as much gusto.
If billionaires and corporations payed taxes at the same rate we do, we’d be able to do all this.