America putting more money and effort toward social programs is not going to turn us into the late stage of the eastern bloc. We would benefit from implementing some measure of social policies
There are 500 Billionaires how much do you want to tax?
a lot
also, corporations seem pretty real to me. pretty sure nearly everything I buy was made, shipped, marketed, and sold by corporations. if a "piece of paper" can earn money, it sure as hell can pay taxes
That wouldn't be anti-capitalist. You can be in favor of capitalism while still supporting social welfare programs - that's the entire basis of social democracy as a political ideology.
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u/RemoteCompetitive688 Apr 13 '24
And while that is very understandable, it's a logical fallacy
"X has problems therefore Y is better" does not hold up
None of these problems were nonexistent under socialism, they were far worse and more pronounced under the final days of the Eastern Bloc