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Furthermore by honouring treaties and standing up to bullies the us is gaining a lot of soft power. As a european i want to see more american products in europe and i most certainly will be a strong supporter of your country.
If the able do not help when they are able, the unable will see and know.
And there may be a day when the able become unable and the tides turn.
If you give someone else a bow and arrow, in exchange for an IOU for $1 for the arrow and $100 for the bow, you get your money back by collecting on the note. (Now, its true that Lend-Lease allows hiring US contractors for reconstruction as an alternative to direct repayment, but, how the money gets back to the US isn’t a mystery.)
Edit: if the equipment is new then the 1$ spent is basically a subsidy for the local weapons industry and the workers building it.
And what happens if we stockpile munitions and don't use them? They age, get destroyed and replenished. The military is continually burning money to keep its stockpiles up to date anyway, and if we're sending stuff to Ukraine before it expires, that accelerates the replenishment, but I'd argue that it's better than the alternative.
Oil producers and cartels raise prices because... money's being printed. Because Biden shuts down new pipelines, slows oil leases, is hostile to energy production. Demand craters because of lockdowns that don't work... then ramps up because the world tries to return to normal after a "pandemic".
Almost like an increasing demand with a dipshit anti-energy President is going to have disastrously bad results.
Seriously though... the problem isn't "evil companies" doing shit like making money (how dare they!). The problem is multifaceted.
Did you have an issue when companies closed at record levels because of bad decisions that caused the slowdowns? Or were you cheering because those companies got what was coming? do you think that the surviving companies don't deserve profits after years of losses?
Taxpayers, aka citizens, foot the bill in both cases
Majority of states do not want to pay people for work and that is why we are in this situation. WA recently hiked the pay for teachers and other states can also follow the same if they desire.
On the last note, most of that assistance went as equipment and armaments, not as cash.
If you're talking about MMT as a solution, check again, it's pretty much discredited.
No, it doesn’t.
The central claim of MMT with regard to fiscal policy is that the only real constraints on government spending balance are those resulting from the monetary impacts of, e.g., the net creation/destruction of money.
That is very different from “there are no limits”.
No matter where you live in the US, your teachers are underpaid, no one has brag points
If you need more examples of how the Federal government could distribute $100 bln to elevate parts of the US above third world standards, use your imagination
The executive branch can’t just unilaterally decide where to spend money, they spend money that Congress allocates.
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I am not arguing against increasing teacher compensation, I’m just explaining why it isn’t trivial to address it.
Also worth noting that an extra 100B of deficit is no big deal as long as it only buys unproductive weapons.
The Washington state Supreme Court in 2013 decided that education funding in the state should be more equitable, so now Seattle sends part of their property taxes to poorer districts in eastern Washington, who otherwise would have cheaped out on education because conservatives don’t believe in higher taxes to fund it (but have no problem receiving subsidies from richer liberal areas).
Teachers in the Seattle area also aren’t really underpaid. Not making FAANG salaries, but most clear $80k.
Maybe it will! But, maybe just maybe, you should be complaining to your local officials and fellow constituents who continue to shirk tax increases and levy approvals instead of HN.
The Ukraine aid isn't “per year” (and its largely loans that have to be repaid) and it largely isn’t current expenditures but transfers of very much nonfungible equipment from US inventories, so splitting the total amount among current teachers doesn’t result in a per year figure for sure, and it doesn't really produce any meaningful figure.
I mean, if you really wanted to split what Ukraine is getting among US teachers instead, it would be each teacher getting something like a 1/100 share of a used HIMARS launcher and $30k of debt.
That would be remarkably on brand.
The point they were trying to make is that these are structural issues that are not going to be solved with a bit of extra cash that's currently going to Ukraine and that a more significant and structural improvements need to be made. In short: I think you actually agree with the previous poster, at least in broad lines.
It would change the lives of everyone by making things worse.
Thanks for the offer but how about instead of making the problem worse for everyone in your attempt to help those poor poor teachers... maybe we look at stuff like less "help" from the government that's making everything more expensive and worse at every level?
Worst words you'll hear: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
So, pardon my cynicism, but your type of comment seem to always trace down to foreign interest influence. Either be that Fox, Trump, or just straight up Russia.
Focus on wealth inequality, systematic racism, etc, instead of one of the few actually valid and commendable efforts by US foreign military involvement. Especially those that probably end up net benefitting domestic US interests.
I'd bet good money that you consume a lot of fox news. And, take this however your want. But, looking at the US from the outside, it truly is troubling because of the propaganda and lies that network spreads. It's doing what any opponent of the US could only dream of. And, I am sincere about this. I'm sure I might be suckered into it if roles were reversed.
Russia is making an effort to try and disrupt arms supplies to Ukraine using its intelligence agencies and trolls online to try and sway public opinion is why.
Because they cannot effectively target them in Ukraine itself.
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