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Originally Posted by Lune
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Denmark, Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany, etc etc etc do it, and we're wealthier than they are.
If we didn't spend so much money driving obsolete aircraft carriers around the world and subsidizing the patron industries of corrupt officials, we'd be able to afford nice social programs too.
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Half of those countries are rich because we don't have tariffs
America subsidizes everyone but ourselves, /sigh
I don't hate Bernie. I don't think for a second, however, that increasing the national debt is anything more than perpetual corporate welfare directing taxpayer money to the banks. The banks get permanent assets on their balance sheets and leftists don't care. It's bewildering to me, but then again I get pissed when I lose a penny