Lirishae posted...The Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank founded by the Koch brothers, says corporate welfare is a thing that costs taxpayers nearly a hundred billion dollars a year. Why do you persist in saying otherwise?
The Cato Institute is a LIBERTARIAN think tank. On a right-left spectrum, it's viewed as being rightwing. However, on a political compass, it's another beast entirely. And you didn't include a link so I can't examine those claims, but it's likely that the "cost" is in lost taxes. As a general rule, when it comes to criticizing corporations on certain issues, they're going to be a lot closer to the left than the right even if other issues are right-facing.
Lirishae posted...
Foreign intervention plays a large role in displacing people and creating the need for illegal immigration and asylum. We spend more on the military than any other country, and there is a great deal of waste. The Pentagon failed its first ever audit so badly that they won't even release the figures. And I never suggested we don't give money to the poor. That's a pretty pathetic strawman there.
Foreign intervention is more than just military intervention, it also includes foreign aid and other nation-building efforts. And military intervention can stabilize regions rather than just disrupt them. Some of the US's larger disruptions have technically been less militarily-involved, including its role in supporting the Arab Spring which also greatly contributed to destabilizing the region.
And you were specifically suggesting that the US has some reluctance to give money to the poor when welfare is our LARGEST expenditure.
Doctor Foxx posted...Is this the only song that plays anymore, it's old and the remix is worse
All I know is that you and others have constantly attacked me for defending what you criticize as being racist. I turn around and criticize something that's clearly racist and I get suspended for it. What kind of a message does that send?
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