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I know this is an unpopular opinion but, here goes:

We live in a society for a reason. Part of being in that society is helping others and allowing them to help you.

The problem our society has is war spending - money going to companies in no-bid contracts, money being lost by those companies.

The other problem we have is corporate welfare. If this country paid for every single birth it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to how much we pay in corporate welfare. This country is still subsidizing tobacco farming. Why? If the tobacco farms can't support themselves, maybe that would be a good thing?

I live in an area that grows a lot of sugarcane. They do not actually make any money from their crop. They grow at a loss but the gov't gives them so many subsidies that they profit very well.

We could provide health care for every single person in the country - good healthcare and it would cost less than the money we spend to help pay CEO's multimillion dollar salaries (and don't kid yourself, it's the corporate welfare that allows those companies to pay those insane salaries).

Also, for the amount most people are paying for healthcare, they'd see cost savings if it became federally funded. When I was paying for private health insurance I was paying 25% of my take home pay for insurance. Even if they raised taxes to 50% to cover universal health, I'd come out better as would most people. The only people who wouldn't are the people making $200k or more.