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Money is finite. So are basic survival needs.

We certainly can't give everyone a Bezos yacht. But we can probably have a little less famine, as a treat.



> Money is finite. So are basic survival needs.

Yes, and the United States cannot shoulder the burden of the entirety of the world's economic migrants.

Where is this magical, commensurate influx of licensed doctors coming from to deal with the influx of unlimited economic migrants (who can't cover their own tax expenses?)

We're not talking about yachts: we're talking about healthcare and food. Take all the yachts away, force Bezos to liquidate everything (and every other billionaire): neither the income nor the fixed assets are enough to cover healthcare for the population we already have, much less a gargantuan, unproductive group of new arrivals.


But no one proposed bringing everyone to the US and leaving the rest of the world as a depopulated national park?


>But we can probably have a little less famine, as a treat.

Surely it's cheaper to do that via foreign aid in whatever country that's experiencing famine, where the cost of living is lower?


Yes, we should absolutely undo the USAID cuts.


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See, this is what always happens. You didn't actually want to "do that via foreign aid". You don't want it at all.

Same deal with "what about the homeless veterans?!" or "it's mental health, not guns!" from people whose politics boil down to "fuck them, too".


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> Correct.

Then be honest and just say "fuck the poors", not a fake desire for doing it a different way that you hope will go unquestioned.

> I wonder why Switzerland has no issue.

27.6 guns per 100 residents, versus 120 in the US. Firearms registries, acquisition permits, and quite a few controls over ammo acquisition. Plus mandatory universal training via conscription.




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