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by sjsdaiuasgdia 1 day ago
Yep, and you see a similar thing with government spending and presumption of waste.

Sure, government spending can be wasteful. But it's also generally going into the economy. It's buying stuff from companies who use the revenue to pay their employees and supply chains. It's paying government employees who spend their pay on places to live, food to eat, entertainment, etc. Some folks act like that money disappears. Waste or not, governments aren't generally hoarding cash, they're spending it.

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The problem is that a lot of the money doesn't go towards the people/causes it was intended to go but into the pockets of well connected middlemen.