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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s “scary” because he’s been brainwashed into thinking that taxes and government what’s hurting him. The LACK of government programs FOR HIM is what’s hurting him. The people who avoid taxes, such as industrial farm conglomerates aided and abetted by bought and paid for congressmen are what’s hurting him.

And the welfare dig sounds like a dog whistle to me. [/quote]

You are part of the problem, frankly.  He doesn't need nor does he want government programs.  He wants to be left alone by the government.  As do many of us.  
He is complaining about the WAY our tax dollars are being spent.  No accountability for welfare.  Our youth are dying from fentanyl and little to no effort to stop the drugs from coming to our country.  Our hard earned money going to foreign countries in the BILLIONS, if not TRILLIONS, and we have people here who have no homes and no food.

He's not been "brainwashed" at all.  He has lived it.  He has seen the waste of tax money.  He speaks for millions. [/quote]

Nice contradiction.

"He doesn't need or want government programs" -- yet he complains that tax dollars are being spent on foreign aid when "we have people here who have no homes and no food."

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There is no contradiction there at all. 
He needs no help from "government programs."  But, he, no doubt, know many that do.  Instead our tax dollars are going, in the TRILLIONS to support foreign governments instead of taking care of our own homeless and poverty ridden citizens.

You just don't get it.  [/quote]

We don't send trillions of dollars to foreign governments. We spend about $40 billion in aid to foreign governments, with another ~$75 billion to Ukraine. That's about $115 billion, which is $885 billion less than one trillion, never mind multiple trillions: https://concernusa.org/news/foreign-aid-by-country/#:~:text=Foreign%20aid%20by%20country%202022,has%20disbursed%20over%20%2432%20billion. 
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts#:~:text=Since%20the%20war%20began%2C%20the,Economy%2C%20a%20German%20research%20institute.

We do, however, spend several trillions of dollars on our own citizens by funding Medicare, Medicaid, housing assistance, SNAP, SSI, TANF, EITC, etc: https://www.thepolicycircle.org/brief/safety-net-programs/

I'm glad to hear, though, that you think we should be spending more on our social safety net. I trust that you will vote for Democrats who support those expanding and funding those policies. Right?[/quote]

Most americans prefer democratic policies whether they think they do or don't. Most just have a mental block based upon how they were raised to switch parties.

If you told the bottom 50% of income earners that they will get $1,000/mo from Uncle Sam (but say the republicans wanted to do this) they would all support that -- Ds and Rs.

People are so blinded by the past they can't realize what would benefit their family moving forward.[/quote]

I don't agree with you at all.  
Most of the people I know who received money during the pandemic were outraged that the govt. was sending out money to everyone - whether they needed it or not.  It was a waste.  Yes - send out funding to those unable to work or earn a living.  But, those of us who were still receiving income or pension payments did not need the money.  
I think most honest people would object to such a plan.  [/quote]

Need-based assistance is so bureaucratic and complicated it would have taken months to implement and still would have helped some who didn’t need it and would have missed many who did. Everyone you know would have complained even more about that. None of the Covid relief was wasted. It juiced the economy when it needed juicing. People who didn’t need it could spend it in the economy where it would find people who did need it. [/quote]

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