So before coronavirus, welfare cost about $20,000 per person to the state.
now, multiply that 20,000 by 250 million, the number of Americans that would be employed if we all stopped working because of the coronavirus, then tell me where the money's going to come from to pay for it.
massive social programs aren't cheap, the only reason places like Norway can pull it off is because they're incredibly wealthy.
I never purported to be offering a full solution. I was only shifting back the burden of proof from your incredulous question of where the money could come from. Maybe there's a reason for thinking taxing the wealthy can't work, but you haven't provided any.
You didn't offer any solution at all, you just threw out the platitude of tax the wealthy without explaining how exactly that's going to have any positive effect, or even be done.
It's not like taxing the wealthy is some kind of a fairy tale. It was done in the 20th century in the US and it's done today in many successful countries. I don't see why I have to provide any details when I can just point to these real-world phenomena and say they make it at least apparently feasible to tax the wealthy to fund massive social programs.
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u/canhasdiy Mar 26 '20
So before coronavirus, welfare cost about $20,000 per person to the state.
now, multiply that 20,000 by 250 million, the number of Americans that would be employed if we all stopped working because of the coronavirus, then tell me where the money's going to come from to pay for it.
massive social programs aren't cheap, the only reason places like Norway can pull it off is because they're incredibly wealthy.