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also the rich absolutely _do_ owe society at large something: taxes. a thing which, as you get richer, it apparently becomes optional due to financial engineering

There is a tax book. If you don’t take advantage of every possible option allowed by the thick book, then you are just dumb.

But if you are feeling more patriotic than you usually feel, may I remind you Uncle Sam accepts gifts at:

https://fiscal.treasury.gov/financing/gifts-to-government

unclear as to how i, a non-US citizen, would give the US government taxes.

also unclear as to why i would want to help fund a genocide, but that's just me.

> That’s why America is the Greatest Country on Earth, ever

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

Well, it’s the country that most people who leave their country risk their lives to move to. So at least most immigrants on earth agree with me.

If I were to nitpick, I would say that they try to move to a idealised version of the US that never quite existed. This romanticised version has been pervasively depicted in mass consumption media for many decades.

More meaningful perhaps would be to count the immigrants from developed countries and immigrants that earn above the median in their respective countries and/or go to the US and earn above the American median.

There are a lot of desperate people in the world right now who’ll take extreme action to escape their immediate predicaments, such as risking a Mediterranean crossing from Northern Africa to Europe.

citation needed on that last claim. do you have universal healthcare free at point of service? do you have a healthy supply of public housing? do you let children starve, through no fault of their own but the circumstances of their birth? do you engage is ears of choice and murder 100+ innocent children in a primary school on the first day of the conflict?

the answer to some of these questions should be yes, and others should be no, if you're going to make the claim that the United States of America is the "Greatest Country on Earth, Ever".

The greatest country on earth ever is that which most people of the world, if given a free plane ticket and permission to live in, would go to.

I don’t know how you find it controversial. It’s just a fact.

Maybe just the best marketed?

You need the goods. You cannot market Somalia for example.

>America is the Greatest Country on Earth

Yeah ok mate. Have a good one.

Thanks. If you think some other country is, then tell us.

> That’s why America is the Greatest Country on Earth, ever.

hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahhahahahahahahahhaahah

Well, it’s definitely not Australia

And I'm not conceited enough to claim that it is

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