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.🧵
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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.

Jun 30, 2023 · 11:59 AM UTC

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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
Subsidies I agree are free money . In some instances can be justified. Tax cuts are not free money. The government taking slightly less of your money isn’t a gift. Doesn’t matter how much you make the government doesn’t deserve a penny of it.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Yes, the offense contractors price gouge the Pentagon and the Pentagon has an open purse.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Both support the trillions spent in Afghanistan and Iraq! Under both, Poverty, hunger and homelessness continue to grow. Two genius parties that keep each other, wealthy and in power. They use social issues to keep us at each others throats! Not on their many failures!
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Both are bad. However tax cuts are not the same as subsides. We need to end subsidies. But tax cuts just allow people to keep more of their own money.
Replying to @marwilliamson
None of the Democrats/Republicans you incessantly elect, endorse and support will never be affected by the failed policies they impose on us! Poverty! Homelessness! Working check to check! You march yourself, your children and the future of the cliff with you!
Replying to @marwilliamson
Just think.....if @TheDemocrats and @GOP were dissolved how much money would be available for government programs, not to mention the money that lobbyists pour into them. Another utopian dream, but one I'd personally love to see happen
Replying to @marwilliamson
These have nothing to do with money and everything to do with having the real resources available. You can't provide healthcare to everyone if there aren't enough doctors and nurses. We need to tax the rich because they are too powerful, not because we need their money.
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