[iugtmkbdfil834]

<< There is no possible way this can be spun as being about "available resources". The grift is utterly, 100% transparent.

Eh, I mean if you put it that way, I suppose all those budgets are just a show and not at all an indication of how utterly fucked we are as a country unless we both:

a) massively reduce spending b) massively raise taxes

In very real terms, there is only so much money. Some additional money can be borrowed, but we a slowly ( but surely ) reaching a breaking point on that as well.

The issue is: no one is willing to sacrifice anything. And I am sympathetic, but if hard choices are not made now, they will be kinda made for us anyway.

[danaris]

Yes we have to massively raise taxes.

We need to claw back billions and billions and billions of dollars from people for whom it will make zero difference in their daily lives, so that we can spend it on people for whom $100 can change their month, and $10000 can change their life.

[iugtmkbdfil834]

Lol. No. We have to massively raise taxes JUST to keep this country afloat financially. The poor people are still fucked. I know it is exactly massively popular to say, which is why you don't see major proponents sans rando online like me.

[danaris]

Or, y'know, maybe the reason is more this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058280

[iugtmkbdfil834]

Hardly, my advice is real, would have a long term positive impact, while, admittedly, inflicting a lot of pain in the process. If there is any benefit to it, it would be that at least the pain would be shared equally across the board allowing for some form of 'misery loves company'.

On the other hand, your advice, at best, is happy clappy populist advice that will, temporarily make some people happy, but will not change the trajectory of the country resulting in the exact same spot only few years from implementation; and that is assuming it can be done in a way that is not immediately subverted..

If anything, I am giving you a real good reason for not just being a cynic, but being a cynic, who can make a change that lasts.