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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Gutting USAID
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:19:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Feb 16, 2025 at 7:56:01 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 2/16/2025 6:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>  On Feb 16, 2025 at 2:37:29 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>  
>>>  On 2/16/2025 5:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>    On Feb 16, 2025 at 12:14:19 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>>    On 2/16/2025 2:35 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  To all the people defending the USAID spending, name any other country
>>>>>>  that taxes their citizens and sends the money to the United States.
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Umm, the idea is to send money to countries poorer than the sender...
>>>>    
>>>>    Really? So Ireland is so poor it needs the U.S. taxpayer to fund its DEI
>>>>    musicals, does it?
>>> 
>>>  Your contention seems to be that other countries should send the U.S.
>>>  money ...because reciprocity.  My description of the practice clarifies
>>>  why the U.S., as the richest country, is never a recipient.
>>  
>>  The U.S isn't the richest country. Both China and Luxembourg are richer than
>>  the U.S. as a percentage of per capita GDP.
> 
> "With contributions totaling more than €64.4 million to date, Luxembourg 
> is one of the Global Fund's largest donors per capita."
> 
> https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/government/profiles/luxembourg/

How does that meet the challenge I presented?