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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1487736)9/19/2024 10:30:01 PM
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> Wealth distribution

The reality is the rich get most of it. For example in CA farmers were getting water at 10% of what ordinary people pay. This led to farmers using more water than they needed, who wouldn't err on the side of too much? This caused the environmental disaster at Kesterson. I believe farmers are now paying more & hence conserving water using tech like drip irrigation in CA. (In Arizona right now Saudi corporations are draining the underground water tables to water vast farms having depleted their own.)

I worked once on the nice home of a rancher living quite well collecting taxpayer money to not produce milk.

I could find many many distributions to the wealthy... the totals DWARF aid to poor people.

When Walmart builds new stores on cheap land the taxpayers pick up costs to build roads to them.

Sports stadiums routinely are subsidized. Olympic facilities generally lose money for cities.

One such egregious taxpayer funded welfare was NASA's $400,000,000 mission to repair an ITT satellite.

Libertarians you might note are against subsidies to corporations preferring the free market.

Despite the facts some constantly complain the poor get too much.

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What I do hate about some Libertarians, Democrats & of course Republicans are extremists who see the world in black & white... the world isn't as simple as their brains.
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