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Another pointless article to distract from the bigger issue. Spending is out of control and collecting this won't help to pay that down. It'll only contribute to more spending. Neither side are helping to do anything about it other than lining their own pockets.
The term "spending" is bullshit for most governmental expenses. Maintaining infrastructure, education, healthcare and social assistance are investments. Educated healthy people, that can recover, if they are affected by a job loss or other major struggle are a much better workforce than sick, indebted and uneducated people.
Call it whatever you want. The unlimited piggy bank just needs to stop. They all need to be held accountable for every dollar spent as a start. End the corporate lobbying bullshit and have the government public servants actually serve the public. Not your comment but the one above about centrist shit, I don't care about the petty squabble of which side does what. They are both bad. I'm not into picking the lesser of two evils.
That’s exactly what a centrist would say 🤷🏻♀️