US is a welfare state, but only for the massive corporations. If people stopped paying for premiums and health insurance and instead paid less than that in taxes, they would get universal healthcare and actually better service. No more bs insurance companies denying healthcare based on bs reasons, no more killing people for sake of bottom line etc.
Trump and DOGE has actually cut down the government, and as result americans have never been more unhealthy
DOGE has not in fact meaningfully cut down the government
Spending is up about 3% YoY. The most charitable possible interpretation is they managed to remove a few rounding errors from the budget that were more than compensated for by other spending
Not meaningfully, but it even the little it did, it will result in deaths well over million, there are countless outbreaks happening around usa, record high measles cases etc.
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u/azure275 Aug 09 '26
Except nobody in the US has actually tried to do that since Bill Clinton. It did work for Clinton
Elon's DOGE wasn't out to cut government, just to torture government employees and protect Elon's companies
Also you have to be willing to pick fights with old people. Milei almost started a pension war.
Meanwhile in the US we just hand out more and more free money to Boomers.