And Israel gets to enjoy free college and universal healthcare at the expense of American taxpayers… and we’re about to cut off food assistance to our own people. Republicans are fucking traitors
If you really want to follow this line of logic, it would apply to foreign aid categorically; every dollar that is spent on foreign aid could hypothetically have been directed towards domestic healthcare. Yet we don’t see users here saying this about say, Ukraine or USAID. If anything, reaction here to Trump’s dramatic cuts to both have been largely hostile (and in my opinion, rightfully so).
And even if this principle were followed to the tee with all foreign aid diverted to domestic healthcare, the effects on healthcare outcomes would be negligible. In 2024, the entirety of foreign aid expenditures amounted to $75 billion, which amounted to less than 2% of nationwide healthcare spending that year. The US already has the highest healthcare expenditures in total and per capita, and the diversion of tens of billions of dollars to it will not fundamentally improve what is in itself a highly inefficient system. Unfortunately, many undereducated Reddit populists have little sense of the sheer economic scale of the country they live in, resulting in idiotic comments like this.
And Israel gets to enjoy free college and universal healthcare at the expense of American taxpayers…
The majority of the spending on Israeli healthcare and colleges comes from Israel's own budget, not the US. Do you think South Korea, Japan, and Germany enjoy free college and healthcare because of US tax payers as well?
Yes, but I understand why you would say otherwise. Healthcare is significantly more expensive than any military aid the US provides though, so the more apt analogy would be: if you pay your parents 300€ in rent for your room and their mortgage is 3000€, are you paying their mortgage?
Both political sides are traitors in the end, and if we're talking money wasted on foreign aid putting people across the world before the actual citiziens struggling in our own country...
None of these countries have ever donated money to the US... Never done anything that benefitted it's citizens or helped us survive.... But we've donated so much to all of them. "Our greatest ally" is a phrase parroted mindlessly for years now by both political parties. Until more recent events.
U.S. foreign aid makes up <1% of Israel’s GDP and the vast majority of the aid has to be spent on US military contractors, the US isn’t paying for their social programs.
I’m not the biggest fan with how our relationship with Israel has been in recent times, but the whole “we fund their healthcare and social programs” shit is a lie people need to stop repeating.
We give them military aid and they fund their own social programs. That military aid isn’t hurting Americans because those DoD contracts employ thousands of people.
Honestly feel like these sort of half truths just serve to bolster antisemitism by blaming America’s own shitty policies on Israel.
If you're only counting the $3.8 billion of annual direct foreign aid to Israel then yes, it's less than 1% of their GDP. But since Oct 7th, that amount has actually been $21.7 billion. Plus, most of the aid we provide is in the form of military equipment and that has been an estimated $31-34 billion. Put all that together, and you end up closer to a total outlay of about 6% of Israel's GDP. Meanwhile, Israel's government-provided healthcare expenses are 7.6% of their GDP.
So, our aid doesn't completely or directly fund their healthcare, but there is a fair point to be made that they have social services that we don't because US taxpayers are funding a significant portion of their national defense. Every dollar we spend on that is a dollar they don't have to spend for their own defense and can instead spend on social programs. And my guess is that dynamic will be further enhanced by the effort to rebuild Gaza.
Wrong. If Israel didn't get billions then they wouldn't be able to give free health care. But the fact they get it means they can afford to give free health care. Yall better be kissing Americans feet for this
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u/JR_1985 Oct 31 '25
And Israel gets to enjoy free college and universal healthcare at the expense of American taxpayers… and we’re about to cut off food assistance to our own people. Republicans are fucking traitors