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[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 36 points 3 weeks ago

How about free education? Build the country by educating people.

[-] glowie@h4x0r.host 7 points 3 weeks ago

Who pays for the teachers/professors, scholastic supplies, books, etc?

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

Tax the fuck out of the billionaire class

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Government spending doesn't work like your bank account. Instead of just letting banks invent money through fractional reserve banking the government can pay for these kinds of essential services with new money. Taxation isn't like having a bake sale so you can afford to buy things, it's one way for money to be drawn out of the economy so that inflation is controlled.

Yes some taxes raise money proportional to some other spending and are ear-marked for that, but notice how no new taxes had to be introduced to give tens of billions to Ukraine and Israel?

The government can pay for public services.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Hell, we just need to take a small fraction of what the military gets yearly to pay for everyone's student loans, right now.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I agree with this

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