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It's more than that. Iran blew up over $3 billion in US air defense radar equipment yesterday.

There are approximately 22 million children under 5 in America. Quality Childcare costs $15,000 at the high end (varies by location). Universal Childcare for all Americans would thus cost approximately $330 billion per year. We could have universal Pre-K for less than they are spending.

From a pandemic-era piece I never finished:

that’s around as much as flying Ka$h’s girlfriend/handler around costs us.

Education creates smarter people who get better jobs who pay more taxes. Why T F isn't that an investment? Healthcare creates healthier people who get better jobs who . . . Food assistance creates healthier children . . . . Rent assistance creates stability . . . Social programs are investments.

Exactly. They don't pay for social programs because they don't want to, simple as. Poverty is extremely profitable for the ruling class, and keeps the working class too desperate for an uprising.

Always brings this to mind

The answer is “money”

I think we all know at this point that anything military is exempt from this argument in their minds.

Good tip.

The expanded ACA subsidies would have cost $23 billion. In other words, two more weeks of bombing a country that poses no immediate threat to the U.S.

Especially since BLS determined that each $1 of government spending to low-income people adds $1.7+ to the economy. Tax cuts to the wealthy have $0.9 return per $1 (the economy shrinks).

Wasn’t the president telling the country last year we needed to save money on hiring government workers while firing everyone?

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