christopher
@christopher
I am so deeply frustrated that the categorically needy — 17,000,000 Americans — lost a chance at healthcare and economic stability. We gave kids meals, impoverished a chance to live, and young mothers hope. What is the point of government if not to help those that can’t help themselves?
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@m-j-r.eth
some might say the government is insurance and property rights, so one has to weigh its ability to underwrite promises. so who's culpable when austerity becomes absolute? arguably "nothing happens", and this bill tests that while also being hostile to safety nets. on our generations-long trajectory, there will come a point where entitlements go insolvent, and not one by one, but through wholesale democratic failure. we really should help ourselves stabilize, so we can survive to help others. if this mandate can't be upheld, then I don't see how anyone can be permanently helped, even if they can't help themselves.
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Boiler(Chris)
@boiler
When do you point the finger at tax cuts to the rich leading towards entitlement insolvency? Let’s ask why the rich would want entitlements to be insolvent? Maybe so that they can privatize everything, such as the Army brought to you by Coinbase and Palantir?
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@m-j-r.eth
so taxes are always intended to trade a certain amount of economic activity and growth for the entirety of the government's responsibility. there's only so much anyone can collect before the cost outweighs the social mandate. personally, I think taxes are insufficient for the government's current mandate, yet I'm not going to imagine that the class anticipating this burden is any less... invested than the colonists who tarred and feathered British tax collectors. that's what it boils down to: a third rail. moral rhetoric isn't going to be sufficient for those who see the government as overspending itself to death. the critical problem is that the government can inflate money, and socialized cost just feeds into inelastic supply (housing/healthcare), so entitlements really end up being privatized, anyway (as jobs). the actual political journey is not as simple as "those people are immoral, let's seize their property", unless you're fine with capital flight overnight. you have to also deal with supply-side policy and corruption to build justification for progressive taxation. you have to remove the debt while keeping/growing the credit. this is not as easy as many socialist politicians sell it. and the numbers don't lie: https://www.wcax.com/2025/05/19/experts-are-sounding-alarm-health-care-costs/
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