Starbucks Billionaire: You Can’t Have Healthcare Or College

[Megiddo]

VAMatt said:

Megiddo said:

Right. And then once the person who got the 'free' college gets a good job they then pay for others with their taxes. Get it? It's a cycle that works wonderfully. Taxes are not a bad thing as some Americans stupidly think. What's bad is the poor usage of tax money. So whereas other countries are fine doing things that benefit all of society as a whole with their tax money, Americans would rather it be spent not for the benefit of society as whole. Which leads to the American wasteland and vast wealth disparity it is now since the entire country is just about serving themselves and not others.

You seem to have a terrible understanding of American culture and Americans. But, that's outside the scope of this thread.  So, I'll leave it at that.

I seem to have a much better understanding of American culture than you do. How else would you explain your country being vastly more wealthy and yet having worse conditions for its most fragile citizens than countries with much less of its per capita GDP? It's because Americans shun the idea of helping someone below them. It's always "why do I have to pay for this" or "why do I have to pay for that". And that mindset allows politicians to continue cutting taxes on the wealthy so the rich keep hoarding their wealth and the middle class is happy because those under them now have less support. It's hilarious to see. Nobody in America makes a ruckus about the billions in unneeded corporate subsidies but oh no, if just one person uses their food stamps to buy something not completely nutritious it sparks immediate reform. America is a barbaric state compared to most other nations. It can't even guarantee all of its citizens something as basic as healthcare and instead chooses to have corporations profit off of dying people.