“Fixed pots” and “waste” are the kinds of distractions that the billionaires extracting trillions from the 99% want us to be arguing over while we toil away on our hamster wheels chasing crumbs.
The solutions aren’t that complicated: Wealth tax, Wall-St transaction tax, high marginal income-tax rates, Medicare for all, hard limits on borrowing rates. Those policies alone would make a huge difference. We need to demand them, and to demand political leaders that will fight for them.