Originally Posted by
kevbo
Wellfare programs aren't nearly as lucrative as they were before 1995. Considering the current deficits, does it really matter where your taxes go? You can find joy by imagining it's funding your favorite program. Most people just fixate on whichever one they despise the most. Everyone seems to think they are temporarily embarresed billionaires because of taxes.
I get the gravity of the debt, which cannot and never will be repayed. But the interest will remain and its already massive and will become the single biggest thing we pay for in perpetuity.
Be that as it may, "welfare" as you put it, is nothing now compared to what over half the country is pushing for. Unlimited open borders with unlimited free healthcare, "education", housing and eveything else for unlimited amounts of poor people who want to walk over and take it. Then whoever walks over to take it will be amnetized and given a "pathway to citizenship" (voting) that will lock in that system for 1000 years via single party rule. That's literally the campaign promise of an entire major political party with a good chance of winning right now.
6 figure airline pilots (most near or above the quarter million mark in total compensation) will be considered a mandatory target market for funding that fantasy.