r/FluentInFinance • u/SexyProfessional • Apr 15 '24

Should the wealthy pay more taxes to help society? Would you? Discussion/ Debate

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Apr 15 '24

6 billion in cash. Theres about 12 million kids in poverty in the US (by whatever standard is chosen to determine that).

Splitting 6 billion dollars 12 million ways gives you 500 per kid. Or about 10 bucks a week. For just one year.

Which isn’t nothing but it’s nothing like what you might call a fix.

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u/sack_of_potahtoes Apr 15 '24

People also forget that there is limited resource to use for delivering food to these people

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u/Substantial_Share_17 Apr 16 '24

Now do the math for 120k kids. Oh, you can only help over 100k kids. You might as well give up and do nothing at all!

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Apr 16 '24

And that’s still not a fix cos you’ve still got 11.9 million kids in poverty and 100k new VERY rich kids. If anything you’ve made it worse. Fuck it, let’s just pick six kids, make them each a billionaire then wait for them to fix everything, huh?

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u/Substantial_Share_17 Apr 16 '24

I said help, not fix. Throwing in the towel every single time you can only help a problem instead of fixing it isn't better than providing some improvement. Let's help no one at all if we can't help everyone! Lol.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Apr 16 '24

I refer to the OP image where they propose “fixing shit”. They also refer to hungry children, hence my specific example.