Among notable instances, the National Institutes of Health allocated funds to study Russian cats on treadmills; photos of Barbies were utilized as identification to obtain COVID relief funds; the Department of Defense lost $169 million of outdoor-stored military gear; $6 million went towards tourism in Egypt by the United States Agency for International Development; and the Small Business Administration provided over $200 million to “struggling” music artists such as Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne.
Oh, so it’s culture-war bullshit. Neat.
“Who’s to blame for our crushing level of debt? Everybody,”
Oooooh… okay, I get it now. It’s a desperate attempt to find a catchy and memorable thing to blame that isn’t “we give money to rich people by the trillions and tax them less than we do the electricians.” $6 million is like a week’s worth of lost tax revenue from any one of 500 different companies. But sure, tourism in Egypt is the problem. Everyone please remember that.
Yeah. The US government is one of the biggest and most byzantine entities on the planet. You’re going to be able to find some bullshit in there if you look. But that doesn’t all of a sudden mean this culture-war pettiness is the whole problem, and the tax breaks and giveaways for the rich and the Death Star defense budget all of a sudden aren’t relevant to the discussion.
Honestly, if there’s a government program that can help a dude that busks in the subway buy a new saxophone or whatever, good. There should be. Art is important and so are artists.
Oh, so it’s culture-war bullshit. Neat.
Oooooh… okay, I get it now. It’s a desperate attempt to find a catchy and memorable thing to blame that isn’t “we give money to rich people by the trillions and tax them less than we do the electricians.” $6 million is like a week’s worth of lost tax revenue from any one of 500 different companies. But sure, tourism in Egypt is the problem. Everyone please remember that.
Ok, Rand. Now tell us how many of them are not Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne, but artists who are, in fact, struggling.
Yeah. The US government is one of the biggest and most byzantine entities on the planet. You’re going to be able to find some bullshit in there if you look. But that doesn’t all of a sudden mean this culture-war pettiness is the whole problem, and the tax breaks and giveaways for the rich and the Death Star defense budget all of a sudden aren’t relevant to the discussion.
Honestly, if there’s a government program that can help a dude that busks in the subway buy a new saxophone or whatever, good. There should be. Art is important and so are artists.