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If you compare the groups "US" vs "rest of the world" then a transfer of wealth to the US has been observed.
If you compare the groups "US government" vs "US citizens" then a transfer of wealth to the US government has been observed. That's what the meme is referring to.
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Of course the larger goal of mercantillism is to protect and boost local manufacturing. Too early to tell if that's happening as reshoring takes years.
The government is a funnel, not an endpoint. Keep following the money. Blows my mind people led around by the nose by the GOP still believe their rhetoric about this - just proves the groupthink and lack of critical thinking going on with their voters.
Why so adversarial? I'm not even part of that game, on a totally different continent. Blows my mind that the so many people think politics is binary groupthink - sanctimonious indeed!
The observations I mentioned above are factual. Blows my mind that it's so easy to get angry at measurements.
That's endless, wouldn't you agree? Especially considering all money is, is someone else's debt.
And then to the rich (same thing in many cases but ya know some rich are donors instead of in office)