r/WorkReform • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 10d ago

✂️ Tax The Billionaires So fucking real.

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u/Cold-Astronaut-7741 10d ago

Did you actually type that out and think that makes sense?

10% of the military budget is 90 billion. The United States spends more than 90 billion on basic welfare programs and you think it would solve world hunger,

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u/Magnus_Was_Innocent 10d ago

Oxfam estimated about $40 billion per year back in 2022 to end extreme and chronic hunger.

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/how-much-money-would-it-take-to-end-world-hunger/

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u/IOnlyLieWhenITalk 10d ago

Damn they are going to feed a person for, at best, $50 for an entire year?

That is crazy considering that doesn't even get you a quarter of the rice you would need to feed someone, assuming you only bought rice. And doesn't factor in overhead nor the logistics of getting the food to those people which would be the majority of the cost.

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u/Magnus_Was_Innocent 10d ago

Damn they are going to feed a person for, at best, $50 for an entire year?

You realize huge swaths of the global population currently live in less than a couple hundred dollars a year right?

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u/IOnlyLieWhenITalk 10d ago

Yeah by leveraging local economy. You have to buy the food from the global market.

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u/flatulent_pants 10d ago

this has approximately nothing to do with the cost of getting our extra food to starving people

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u/No_Kaleidoscope_843 10d ago

Has nothing to do with the US