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I am no economic expert, just a normal guy, but I tell you what I do know. Inflation in my state has gone too far, everything is too expensive and when I travel to other states, I look at them and their prices are way lower. A snack here costs like 5 dollars when before it costed way less. And if you want to eat something that will fill your stomach, it will cost around 10 dollars. That's outrageous and a sign that the US government is not improving our economy as much as it should.
But I think it is mostly a state issue, I have traveled to other states, and they don't have the same issues with groceries and fast food being expensive. Maybe that's a sign to move to another state or to try to vote my way out of this situation (Tough luck, most of the citizens of my state voted for the status quo historically) but I wouldn't say it is that much of an issue. It is an inconvenience, yes, but I can at least still buy groceries and food.
Though at this point, I avoid fast food as much as possible. They were something you could buy even when you're poor, but now you kinda have to treat them like normal restaurants due to how expensive they have gotten. And that's a shame, it didn't use to be this way. We need a return to form.
To counter the expenses of fast food restaurants, I just prefer to cook at home. Sometimes I make pasta, other times I make rice and for breakfast I eat sandwiches. That is all better than spending nearly ten dollars on Burger King for something that tastes awfully and barely fills my stomach.
Shrinkflation is an issue too, I have noticed that a lot of bread, food, chocolate, cereal, everything has gotten smaller. In order to maintain similar prices, they give us smaller portions of food. I was disheartened when I bought bread, and it had fewer slices than before. I fell to my knees and cried, "How could the government do this to me?" and then I got up and made myself a sandwich.
As for taxes, I can't say I am too bothered by them. I wouldn't say they're very expensive, on at least the stuff that I have bought before. But I wish the money spent our taxpayer money on better things than starting and dropping wars, drones and nukes in foreign countries. I don't get it, does the Israel-Palestine war boost our economy our something? I would prefer if we had a more isolationist mindset rather than interfere in eternal wars so much.
Either way, the point is that I would much rather if the money we spent on war got reduced, and we started spending more taxpayer money on welfare like healthcare and housing. I know the libertarian argument against this is to let everyone on their own, but I think libertarians are silly people, and I wouldn't mind if my money was spent to help others and the money of others was spent to help me.
That being said, there is a thing as too much welfare, look at the UK. The people there use welfare as an alternative for working rather than as a safety net or as a helping hand that lets them work and that ***** over their economy badly because now you have a bunch of leeches that prefer to laze around and get help from the government rather than to provide to society, despite being perfectly capable of working.
So we should strike a balance, we should have welfare that helps our children, the ill, the disabled, the seniors, the retired, the veterans, but we should prevent perfectly healthy people from leeching from this system.
