Re: Gutting USAID

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.