If you add up all the people living at or below the poverty line and work out how much money it would take to lift them above it, it comes to about $177 billion a year. (About 1% of our nation's GDP)
If we collect the tax money that billionaires owe - not raise their taxes, just collect the taxes they already owe, and enforce that, it comes to about $175 billion a year.
The existence of poverty in this nation is a choice we make. Ending it is 100% attainable.
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