{"id":18694,"date":"2025-05-09T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/todays-solution-5-9-25\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:43:45","slug":"todays-solution-5-9-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/todays-solution-5-9-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s solution 5-9-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A lot of government grants go to businesses that make a profit. Some, profit directly from grants that enable those profits, and aside from any corporate taxes, those profits go back to the shareholders of the company or university doing the research. The taxpayer gets nothing. Zero. And we’re talking about billions of dollars in government grants and contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the research was done using government funds, the people should benefit. Whether it’s universities or big-pharma. Space exploration, internet app, or satellite communications. If taxpayers kicked in to help you create it, we deserve our share of the pie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Profits from any research funded by the government should be distributed directly back to the people whose taxes paid for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If government funds were 50% of total funding, the people should get 50% of the profits. Apply this to drug research. Space exploration or energy research. Or ANY grant recipient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do the people get paid back? Profits get put into a budget that MUST be used for direct public assistance. A monthly paycheck paid directly to every citizen, prioritized inversely by income level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When there are no more poor people, the rich get a bigger share of the funds. When everyone is wealthy, the rich get 100% of the benefits. When everyone wins, we all win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look, ‘Trickle-Down’ is a lie. We know that. When the poor have more, they spend more, and the rich will make more profits selling it to them. Everyone wins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starving people by continual, planned inflation without corresponding wage growth, in order to make an extra 2% profit per year is pure stupid. Don’t even get me started with gouging and price fixing. The wealthy have many tricks to transfer wealth from YOU to THEM. It’s evil. People suffer and die because of their bottom line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, no one can afford to buy anything, and no one wins but a few overpaid fat cat profiteers, hiding behind the faceless corporations that run our lives. The middle class disappears, and just about everyone feels like they are struggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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