Sadly the US has become a nation "let someone else pay for it or do it." Everything from "we need more prisons!" "Build it in my neighborhood? Fuck that!" "Go to war? In two countries? Hell yes! Lets go get those bastards!" "Raise my taxes to pay for it or send my kid(s) to Iraq?" "Fuck that." I want mine, I got mine and fuck you seems to be the philosophy of a lot of people. The thought that a rising tide lifts all boats is long forgotten.
Maybe what we need to do is just cut out all the noise and let those who support things like national health care, the stimulus etc... pay for it and receive the benefits. And all those folks who supported the wars and the trillion or so dollars it's cost or want to build 700 miles of border walls and spend billions finding and deporting millions of illegals can pay those bills. Want nationalized health care? Ok, here's the bill for your share. Want to continue to fight the war in Afghanistan and pay to build schools there? Ok, here's the bill for your share. Everyone would just pay for those things they support and the budget would be balanced. I'm sure those numbers add up the same way as having Buffet pay off the national debt. But let's just have everyone put their money where their mouth is, if nothing else maybe there would be less shouting.
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