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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
$1 billion spent by the Government goes mostly to build something by Americans in America. This money they spend in shops. Mostly on imported goods.
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Bullshit. It goes to corrupt elite in the form of bank bailouts, Haliburton contracts, foreign debt, or to invade some country that isn't giving corporations what they want. And I don't give a rats ass if they export jobs. Nationalism is discriminating against people based on where they were born and live. How is that any different than racism? It's petty and small minded. Why should someone in the US deserve anything more than someone in China? Discrimination is immoral. You're being a Luddite. We have a global economy now. Stop thinking so small trying to be in some kind of protected bubble. You need to accept the entire world as one system. Otherwise it leads to wars. First it was tribe vs tribe and then they decided that was barbaric. Then we had racism?we are still trying to fight that one. Currently we have this idiotic notion of nationalism, which is just tribe vs tribe on a bigger scale.
As far as incentive to fund dishonest? It comes from government officials wanting to be elected because it places them in a place of power. In order to do this, they spend other people's money in an attempt to win votes and support from powerful people/companies.
Giving people a tax break isn't cutting jobs. You're already cutting jobs by taxing in the first place. That money would have been spent back in the economy. When it is taxed, it is wasted and spent in ways that are much less constructive?bank bailouts, debt payments, crony capitalism, military industrial complex, etc.