I was told growing up that I won’t like socialism once I have to start paying taxes. I pay taxes, but would much rather pay way more taxes to have socialism. Including paying for social programs I wouldn’t use like welfare, free tuition etc.
Once I qualified for work pharmacare that was great! But I remember how much it sucked not having any health insurance. Yeah I bootstrapped it, but I’d hope we would grow up as a species and not have to have so much bootstrapping, since there are better ways at this point.
It’s naive to talk about more or less taxes.
Somehow it’s ok to spend 100s of billions of tax money on military hardware that no one needs or wants for the sole purpose of keeping those factories going and the towns employed, but spending half as much on a basic income for those people with no middleman taking a cut is wasteful and unreasonable.
There’s literally a war happening right now. Are you not at least a little bit glad that the US spends more on its military than Russia does?
Is the US participating in the war?