I've been saying for 20 years that it's cheaper to pay more taxes than deal with the aftermath of idiots protes.., I mean looting and burning stuff.
I'll respond to your ignorant ass one time. You are either incapable or unwilling to learn about anything in America
Nearly 50% of the population pays no taxes, zero, nada, zip, NEIN. In fact, at tax time, they usually end up with a nice payday from the people who do pay taxes. How much depends on how many crotch critters they spawned. Hence their propensity of shooting them out like a water cooled browning M1919
Those same people qualify for medicaid, ie free healthcare, they also get food stamps, which are now on a debit card because having to pay with other peoples money is shameful, and they didn't like it when the people buying their groceries could tell.
Yes, they get taxpayer provided cell phones, with data plans so they can "apply for jobs"
They get housing allowances, help with electricity, gas, and water services.
Thanks to covid, all the kids around here got laptops, and hotspots if they didn't already have internet at the house, which may already be subsidized depending on where you live.
Furthermore, if anyone regardless of race creed nationality or any other category shows up to a public hospital, that hospital has to provide services to them. They don't even have to provide an accurate name or address. I've seen it happen time after time while in the waiting room.
Where is the line where enough is enough? when will we give them enough freebies that they become self sufficient?
Guess who gets to pick up the bill for all of these things?
Being poor in America is still better than 90% of the worlds population have it.
The only people who get truly screwed are the working poor whose pride wont let them game the system, and the other 50% of the population who go to work everyday and get to pay for it all.