Also, charity doesn’t have a mandatory 30-45% cutout for defense spending that’s essentially a wealth transfer from the citizenry to Northrop Grumman, so maybe hesitate just a moment or two before singing the praises of taxation
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Replying to @wheatpond
Taxes are better at revenue generation (in US $4T vs $300B better). Agree w you gov is prob worse at allocation. Though if you look at how donations are allocated, people aren’t that great either.
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Replying to @ChaseAdam17
Don’t know of any charities bombing children, doing experiments with STDs on unwilling participants, actively destabilizing democratic regimes... the bar for “better at allocation” could not possibly be lower.
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Replying to @wheatpond
I’m debating social services, not defense. The primary role of gov is defense and I agree they should be held way more accountable. But if the debate is public vs private spending, do you think if gov defense spending was $0, individuals would do better?
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Replying to @ChaseAdam17
Absolutely they’d do better—most Americans only wish to spend money on actual *defense,* not on offensive attacks on whatever countries Halliburton et al decide look especially juicy this week.
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Replying to @wheatpond
Interesting. I think that’s where we disagree. I’d prefer a democratic government allocating defense dollars, even with the current issues (and I agree there are lots), over anyone with enough money having their own private army.
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Replying to @ChaseAdam17
I just said private spending, not change the laws to allow anyone to actually field an army. This discussion has to happen next time we hang though haha twitter is too short
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haha, sounds good. looking fwd to it :)
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