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If a government or a corporation has 16 billion dollars, is completely inconsequential to me. I don't see anything of either
You are part of why Elon Musk et al can exist.
You do not know your enemy when you see or hear them.
Elon Musk is not my enemy. The fact that billionaires got a massive pile of money doesn'ylt affect me in the slightest.
You know what does affect me? Corrupt government officials that embezzle public funds, spend it on stupid projects that only enrich their friends and families. That affects me.
You really think that giving the government access to even more money will help you? Hell no. It's going to end up in the same hands as now, just more of it.
Taxes are a borderline infinite money source, and if you don't have to worry about s source drying up you start wasting it, which is exactly what's happening in many countries now.
Did you drive anywhere on a road today? If so you've already been given more from public spending than you will ever get from Coca Cola.
Government money does a lot of really important things. If you want those things to better reflect your priorities then you need to get more involved in the process (especially at the municipal level, where you will see the most direct impact from government spending).
No doubt that it does. However, pretending like the world would be a perfect place if those darn corporations would just pay all their taxes is foolish.
No one did. You just invented that in your head so you could get mad about it.
Making giant corporations pay their taxes is one tiny piece of a very large puzzle. But you need every piece to finish a puzzle.
Said the defeatist
That is a valid take. It also a sign that the current system isn't working.
The people should be in control of the government and the government should spend money on its people.
Unfortunately, that isn't the case right now. We need to work together to fix this.
Jup. Governments are way too large for their own good, gets involved in way too many private matters and is insanely expensive. We need to drastically downsize the entire thing and have it focussed on their core job again.
I would disagree, I think governments could stand to get bigger. Tax the wealthy more to close the income gap and get single payer healthcare, so our healthcare isn't tied to our jobs.