Re: Gutting USAID

BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On Feb 17, 2025 at 2:02:22 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

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

 
Ireland is wealthy but it somehow expects us to dump our citizens' money on
them.

 
No, that's a real-life thing. Ireland has super-low corporate income
taxes that gets them in trouble with the rest of the EU, essentially
encouraging multi-national corportions to pretend their foreign earnings
were truly earned in Ireland and not subject to domestic income taxes
where the income was earned.
 
Hence, multi-nationals formerly based in the United States moved to
Ireland.
 
If we didn't have an income tax, this wouldn't have happened. Whatever
nonsense foreign aid spending from the United States pales in
comparison.
 
It's like the joke pre-Trump alleged "fiscal conservatives" in Congress
had about gutting Amtrak's budget to address budget deficits, ignoring
that Amtrak is the single smallest federal program or in the bottom 5.