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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Their problem is mostly that it spends money helping poor people, when all that money could be allocated to further tax cuts for rich people.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Disasters create poor desperate people. Poor desperate people give cheap labor.

FEMA disrupts the natural predation on the worker class by capitalism.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That and they want to privatize every government program so the government spends taxpayer money paying private corporations and they directly profit off it. Tax cuts are one edge of the sword. Directly profiting off tax is another. They do it already in so many places, but it will never be enough, it’s the product of hyper capitalism