Government Hands Out Billions To Wealthy Corporations – But Universal Healthcare Is Unrealistic?

One of the biggest things that's really made me angry over the last few weeks is the fact
that not just Republicans but also some corporate Democrats who continue to tell us that we
absolutely cannot afford these proposals being put forth by people like Bernie Sanders.
The things that the public really wants, like Medicare for all or debt-free college or increased
Medicaid, increased Social Security.
"We simply can't afford that," these so-called progressives are telling us.
Well, here's a number that I want everybody to remember forever, 80 billion dollars.
Remember that number, and no, that's not just the amount that we increased our military
budget by this year even though it's the same amount.
Eighty billion dollars is the amount of the money that the United States Federal Government
hands out every single year in subsidies to already wealthy corporations, most of whom
pull in more than a billion dollars in profit every single year.
And yet, in spite of that, in spite of the fact that these are hugely profitable companies
employing people and paying them dirt floor wages, we're handing out an extra 80 billion
dollars every single year to them.
Why?
Most of that is coming from states and local governments.
The money comes from the federal down to the local levels, and they pay companies, like
Walmart or other big box stores, Target, Best Buy, things like that, Home Depot, Lowes,
to come into their areas and build a store because it creates commerce, and it does.
That's absolutely true, but what the companies do is they start engaging in basically auctions.
They pit one city against another and say, "This city's willing to give us X, Y, and
Z.
What are you going to give us to beat that?"
They get a counteroffer.
They take it back to the first city.
Essentially, these companies are screwing over taxpayers several times in a row just
so they can get some money to go build a store in an area where they were already going to
build a store.
That's what gets me about this.
"Oh, Walmart's not going to come here because we don't give them a million dollars in tax
breaks off the top?"
Bullshit!
Walmarts pop up all the time.
They're going to continue doing that.
Why?
Because they like money.
Same thing goes for any of these other stores.
This isn't just about Walmart.
It's about all of them, and yet, we can't help ourselves from giving them 80 billion
dollars a year, so that they can come into our communities, pay minimum wage to their
employees, which the taxpayers in the areas then have to subsidize for things like food
stamps and Medicaid because these people can't afford it, and they don't get health insurance
from their employer.
That's another side effect of this.
And yet, some of these progressives, Democrats, and Republicans have the audacity to tell
us that we can't afford debt-free college.
We can't afford Medicare for all.
We can't afford to keep paying out Social Security.
There's 80 billion dollars within the Federal Government right now that's going to companies
that make more than a billion dollars a year in profit just from sales of their goods.
If we can afford to give them 80 billion dollars, I think we can afford to give every American
citizen not only a free college education but free healthcare for their entire lives.
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Government Hands Out Billions To Wealthy Corporations – But Universal Healthcare Is Unrealistic?

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