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amai ◴[] No.44479311[source]
Not paying taxes and then complaining about the state of nation (alternatively education, healthcare, security, infrastructur, etc). That is what the elites of our country are doing. Facepalm!
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msgodel ◴[] No.44479318[source]
Education and healthcare get insane amounts of money already. They're not struggling because they're underfunded. If anything they're good motivation to not pay taxes.
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amai ◴[] No.44480261[source]
The life expectency in the US goes down. It seems the money spent on healthcare is not enough. Also in a democracy the government is as smart as the average person. Given that we need much more education.

What gets an insane amount of money in the US is the military. Half of silicon valley is financed by the military. All those IT billionaires wouldn‘t exist if not for money from the Pentagon.

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1. msgodel ◴[] No.44483144[source]
Sure cut that too.

Throwing money at stuff doesn't make it better, often it just attracts people who are good at working over administrators for money. I think you're seeing a lot of that, especially in education.

It's so bad now I think pretty much all the federal education resources are just a net loss and we'd be absolutely better off without them.

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2. amai ◴[] No.44487901[source]
Throwing money at stuff doesn't make it better? Tell that all those investors who say "think big" and throw hundreds of billions at AI.