• @Maggoty
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    1319 days ago

    To be fair, that sounds pretty awesome. If we gave every baby 20,000 dollars and held it for them until college or 20 years old we could actually give our kids a much better start as adults. It would cost roughly 72 Billion dollars a year, about on par with Veterans Affairs. And yeah some of them are going to blow it on a car. But others will turn it into their retirement or get a house or use it for job training.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      518 days ago

      I don’t know if you’ve noticed but our government has been doing the opposite if what is good for the citizenry for around 4 decades now and it’s not going to stop anytime soon.