Re: Gutting USAID

On 2/17/2025 3:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 17, 2025 at 12:18:37 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 2/17/2025 12:19 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Feb 16, 2025 at 7:56:01 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

  On 2/16/2025 6:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    On Feb 16, 2025 at 2:37:29 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
   

    On 2/16/2025 5:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

      On Feb 16, 2025 at 12:14:19 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:
     

      On 2/16/2025 2:35 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

>
    To all the people defending the USAID spending, name any other country
    that taxes their citizens and sends the money to the United States.

>
      Umm, the idea is to send money to countries poorer than the sender...

            Really? So Ireland is so poor it needs the U.S. taxpayer to fund its DEI
      musicals, does it?

>
    Your contention seems to be that other countries should send the U.S.
    money ...because reciprocity.  My description of the practice clarifies
    why the U.S., as the richest country, is never a recipient.

        The U.S isn't the richest country. Both China and Luxembourg are richer
than
    the U.S. as a percentage of per capita GDP.

>
  "With contributions totaling more than €64.4 million to date, Luxembourg
  is one of the Global Fund's largest donors per capita."
>
  https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/government/profiles/luxembourg/

    How does that meet the challenge I presented?

>
Cutting to the chase: you said Luxembourg should send the U.S. Money.

 No, I asked anyone to name a country that taxes its citizens and sends the
money to the United States.

I thought we'd dispensed with the absurdity of an eminently wealthy nation receiving foreign aid.  But maybe only I did.