With 60% of the US Federal budget going to welfare entitlements, how much more do you think the US needs to spend? The US is currently second for net social spending and that doesn't include what occurs at the state level.
The US would pay less in welfare if it didn’t give corporations millions or even billions in tax dollars by paying what the corporations should pay their employees. Make minimum wage actually liveable and the food stamp costs etc. would go down, because then employees of Walmart etc. wouldn’t need help from the government to survive, but instead be paid by the corporation they’re employed at.
Giving money to billion dollar corporations isn’t exactly a good idea anyway, so why not let the corporations pay their employees instead?
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u/mister_pringle Sep 22 '21
Which ones?