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Originally Posted by supafamous

I like many of the socialist policies because they actually work better for the economy.

When the middle class is healthy (fair wages, good benefits) there are more consumers and the economy grows more (proven over and over again).

When daycare is cheap/free more moms can work generating more economic value.

When we house the homeless it costs less than letting them be homeless which causes more crime, deaths, and property damage.

When we deprioritize the car and make neighbourhoods more walkable citizens are healthier, live longer, and do more work.

When we add bike lanes businesses get more business b/c cars mostly just drive by while bikes (and walkers) stop and buy things.

When we make schools good and make university cheap people do more with their lives - they invent, they cure, they discover...

The US is one big experiment with social policies and every shithole state doesn't believe in the above. They are every man and woman for themselves, they think handouts are theft, they don't believe in the collective good. I've been to one of these shithole states (Louisiana) and it's pathetic.

I agree with all of these policies, the problem is that the government is so inefficient, they can't implement these things without taxing us through the butthole.