I think there's a lot of billionaires who need taxing, and I think there's a whole military-industrial complex that could use defunding Lots of people agree with me on that
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The Soviets tried to do that -- the goal of a planned economy where the people in charge could just tell everyone in the country "Everyone work on this problem until it's solved" and it would happen Ironically the Space Race was specifically an attempt to prove this model worked
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And they did have a lot of success with it for a while Russia and its satellites going from "the sick man of Europe" to becoming a nuclear superpower, Sputnik scaring the shit out of the capitalist West with how fast they were going
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That’s why we need to build the Aquinas Hub
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I mean, in particular with the thing in Texas, the thing is, if you somehow extracted their entire 23 billion dollar yearly budget in usable cash TOMORROW and just airdropped hundred-dollar bills from helicopters? That STILL WOULDN'T FIX ANY OF TEXAS' IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS.
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Because Texas' INFRASTRUCTURE is FUCKED. People can't go to the store to buy shit with that money, because the stores are closed! Because there is no power! Because the power plants are COMPLETELY FUCKED! And you can't just repair them overnight!
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