• clgoh@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      …or about 3% of the military budget. Quite a bargain.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Maybe you’s could do a similar thing for healthcare and get healthcare for free, like this new nasa+ thing. Wouldn’t that be wild

      • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        But what about the profits of insurance companies that act as gatekeepers to your healthcare?? Are those people just supposed to get different jobs? Bet you didn’t think about who you would be hurting

        Sarcasm

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      The funny thing with tax is you don’t get choose how it’s spent. Tax money is public money that ought to be spent in the public interest, and NASA is a perfectly good example of this. Other good examples are infrastructure, parks, public healthcare and free education. Bad examples of tax expenditure are the ridiculous military complex, massive corporate subsidies and contractors doing poor work that the government should be directly controlling.