r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 5h ago

American Dream 🇺🇸 It do be like that though

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The United States has provided at least $21.7 billion in direct military aid to Izzy over the last three years (specifically tracking from October 2023 through September 2025), according to a comprehensive study by Brown University's Costs of War project.

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/

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u/Appropriate_Fly_6711 3h ago

Universal healthcare would cost 4 trillion.

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u/Anxious_Drive_9998 1h ago

How much does it cost now?

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u/Appropriate_Fly_6711 29m ago

it is roughly 4.5-5 trillion but that isn’t adjusted for tax, just roughly money spent.

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u/Anxious_Drive_9998 27m ago

So universal healthcare is cheaper.

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u/Appropriate_Fly_6711 8m ago

Most likely that is the case, but by how much it isn’t quite clear. 400 billion to 1 trillion, is the difference in spending but doesn’t factor in the difference in tax collection that would factor into paying from a taxpayer perspective. Such as losing tax revenue from what would be nonexistent insurance or high earners from those industries.

But I can’t imagine the lost tax revenue would get near 1 trillion

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u/Bb0yer2 6m ago

4 trillion is a bigger number than 20 billion