[bigger_inside]

what? no. Government money is a direct pipe to transnational corporations and the billionaires that run it. Welfare payments are peanuts compared to it.

[robertlagrant]

You're confusing two things. If the government pays for healthcare, that is for people, but goes to organisations to implement what's being paid for.

[bigger_inside]

like trillion dollar bank bailouts, subsidies awarded through ruinous competition among jurisdictions, trillions and trillions of dollars of defense spending for which the government will invent endless wars.. like that?

[robertlagrant]

If you like, you can look at the data[0] I'm looking at. 15% on defence; 67% on health and related; education; social security; etc.

[0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

[jokethrowaway]

Sure, let's assume 100B

What's the value provided to citizens by spending 67B on health in the USA in terms of value provided? 10B in a country where prices are not the result of insurance companies colluding with the government?

[robertlagrant]

I'm replying to this:

> Government money is a direct pipe to transnational corporations and the billionaires that run it. Welfare payments are peanuts compared to it.

I don't see the point in hypotheticals. You're restating the politics you've absorbed over years of consuming a certain slant of media. There's no point in that, and no point in me doing the same.