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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Field trips to the post office to study letter sorting machines & software should be normalized for public school students. Clerks at USPS physically demonstrate a sort program daily but folks don't think of them when they think "tech". #STEM #SortProgram youtube.com/qq_o52vAgQk

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Replying to @marwilliamson
yah but, no... congressional appropriations fund federal spending, tho. federal spending doesn't need to search the couch cushions for tax dollars in order to come to be. enough with the austerity narratives. PLEASE.
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this is nice on paper, but in reality, it's different.
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I'd build a Nation where you skip the part where you first give all the money you earn to the govt then they decide how it is redistributed fairly with love and compassion to transform humankind. Wait, deciding what you do with your own money is Capitalism. I guess we did.
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tHiS iS WhAt i aM sAyInG
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So were you just pretending to understand MMT or are you deliberately lying now? @StephanieKelton youtube.com/zQc1DEDcTfk

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Replying to @marwilliamson
You are so moral and self righteous 😇
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I agree with you on that. The problem is I fully expect you to drop out and endorse the sitting President who will not push for any of these things.
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