Medicare4All, tuition-free college and tech school etc are not “free.” They are the use of our tax dollars - money earned by the people themselves - to actually serve the people.🧵

Jun 30, 2023 · 11:59 AM UTC

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That “free money” about which some are so concerned is the billions of dollars in corporate subsidies given to companies already making billions of dollars; tax cuts for the very very wealthy; and defense contractors who gauge the military with impunity.
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“If they give it to the poor, they call it a handout. If they give it to the rich, they call it a subsidy.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
We already spend all of that plus one trillion dollars so no tax dollars do not cover all these liberal pet projects. Who pays for the exorbitant debt? I’ll wait.
Replying to @marwilliamson
We bulk at spending money on the citizens, really, but freely spend on arms, weapons, military bases, war, without question. We need Marianne Williamson as our President, so We The People can survive in this crazy, evil world.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Albert Einstein revolutionized physics and was celebrated, rightly. Then he picked his ass and sniffed his finger. Marianne Williamson wrote a very beautiful book, rightly celebrated. Then she started talking politics and it was shocking how dim she was on that subject.
Replying to @marwilliamson
So first, take profit out of health care. Why use our tax dollars to make the rich richer.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Stealing honestly earned money at gun-point to give to other people is deeply immoral. That’s true whether a highwayman does it with a gun or an elected Congress does it with the threat of prison. A majority vote doesn’t make the immoral moral.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
They literally are not, please stop spreading right wing economic talking points. K thx.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Medicare for all does not use ANYONE'S tax dollars. Dollars come from the Federal govt, NOT taxpayers.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The private sector doesn’t fund the government. #MedicareForAll et al are “free” because the government would create the dollars to fulfill its obligations. Please stop advancing the false narrative that taxes fund spending. You know the opposite is true.
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