Gris Charnel

Fun fact: the amount of people who die from medically assisted suicide in Canada is greater than the amount of people who die from gun violence in the United States, both on a per capita basis and in absolute numbers.

1) Nothing is free simply because you declare it so. Resources are finite and laborers expect to be paid. If you're not paying for it, someone else is, and that's typically the taxpayer. And no, "taxing the billionaires" won't help the situation. Not only do the nation's top 1% of earners already contribute 40% of the US's tax revenue, the combined net worth of all US billionaires is about $8 trillion, so even if you confiscated all of their wealth, that would only be enough to cover all US federal spending for one year, and now you no longer have the economic value of all the businesses those billionaires owned (Elon Musk alone employs 160,000 people). 2) The US already spends $1.6 trillion dollars per year on Medicare and Medicaid, and another $1.5 trillion on Social Security. Those are by far the biggest money sinks in the US federal budget. The government also spends billions more tax dollars on other social safety nets, including Section 8 housing. 3) Because the government is already spending so much of our tax dollars on those things, they're always spending on a deficit. That's why they always have to print more money, which leads to the devaluation of the dollar, causing inflation. Put simply, it makes everything more expensive. 4) The government is notoriously inefficient, and that's by design. You know how whenever you have to do anything involving the government, you have to sign a thousand documents? That's just so a thousand government workers each have something to rubber stamp, and those jobs only exist for the sake of employing those people. The government creates entirely unnecessary jobs for no reason other than so whatever administration is in charge at the moment can say, "Look at how many jobs we created." 5) It's easy to promise "free" stuff, but actually delivering it is another matter. Canada has "free" healthcare, but there are only so many doctors and their system is so overburdened that the median wait time to see a specialist after a referral is eight months. That's why they now recommend medically assisted suicide for practically anything, and MAID now kills more people in Canada than gun violence does in the US.