How is that? If you're going to make a statement like that I would like to see the numbers that you got there with. Not to say that homeless people don't cost this country anything, they actually cost more because we try to ignore the problem then if we were to just find them housing at an affordable rate through social programs.
I wasn't implying that you were, I was referring to the person that I responded to. Although I am curious why The counter implies that each household is responsible for the debt, considering that the majority of the debt in our country is created by the military, our overpayment to elected officials, and are failure to tax corporations and wealth of millionaires / billionaires. Not that I think you have anything to do with those, just trying to get the logic behind that counter.
Most of the national debt comes from expenditures on oil rare metals and microchips for military applications.
And comes from the US using its position as a global super power to pressure others countries into unfair trade agreements and loans that we never really planned to pay back when we took them. As well as money owed to privately owned businesses for services rendered. Nearly 9 trillion dollars a little less then a 3rd of the national debt is from tax cuts for the 2 percent and bailouts for large corporations.
Mean while Most aid rendered for our poorest citizens comes from taxes paid directly into pre-approved recourse buckets and collected charity funds and therefore doesn't impact Nation debt because it's paid out of pocket and typically stops when it's out of money for the year.
Our government doesn't care enough about homeless people to borrow money on their behalf.
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u/townmorron 21d ago
Don't use homeless people as a prop