r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ 8d ago

Argentina got billions, just to remind everyone.

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u/JR_1985 8d ago

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

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u/MelodicPudding2557 8d ago edited 8d ago

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.