• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Can’t be having the government spending all our money!.

      Oh? What’s that? Lockheed Martin designed a new jet? We’ll take 400 of them.

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        Yeah the government has a bit of a spending problem. You don’t see companies blowing though money as they don’t want to go bankrupt.

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      In this case it is the government spending money from taxes paid by the people to improve the lives of the people who elected the government to govern the country to make it worth living in.

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        Yeah but the government is pretty bad about bleeding money. They also move slow and are a pain to deal with.

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      Yes. Yes it does.

      U.S. per-capita healthcare spending (including public and private as well as compulsory and voluntary spending) is higher than anywhere else in the world, with second-placed Germany trailing quite far behind.

      On average, healthcare costs in the U.S. amounted up to $12,318 per person in 2021. In Germany that number stood at $7,383 - 40 percent lower. Yet, the U.S. lags behind other nations in several aspects such as life expectancy and health insurance coverage.

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      Doesn’t have to. Just need laws and stuff that say the owner of single family homes have to be single families (and not big corporations or landlords)

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        I think a lot of families can’t afford a home. This law would cause a huge amount of homelessness and lead to the suffering if many many people.

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          In my mind the prices would go down if you don’t have big hedge funds and shit to compete with.

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            Prices are primarily controlled by demand that is why properties in areas that are growing are very expensive.

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              Right. Block big landlords from buying up houses wholesale = less demand = lower price.

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      Instead of moving a few things around thinking it will make a lasting difference we need to move in a different direction. tbh Karl Marx really had something going on even if some of the people that read his stuff were complete assholes (cough cough Stalin).

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      It implies the State, through the government, represents the country and deals with suppliers to achieve universal healthcare, education and housing goals.

      But the State should always (must) be the primary provider for healthcare and education, although not denying private initiative but instead heavily regulating it to ensure safety and quality.

      Health and Education are services, not for profit enterprises.

      On the housing front, many countries own and manage large numbers of affordable housing projects and to great success. This isn’t to say the housing market doesn’t require an heavy regulatory, as it does.