Name: ブロークの物語 (2011) (The Story of Broke (2011))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:36:31.000Z
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In Season One of The Story of Stuff, we looked at a system that creates way

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too much stuff, and way too little of  what we really want. Now we're going to start looking at

That's where we'll find ways to turn this situation around.

These last few years, I've had to get a lot more careful about how I spend

holding back on expenses I don't really need, saving for my kid's college.

I'm getting more responsible, taking control of how I spend.

But one thing I can't control is that every month a big chunk of my paycheck

It's not the most fun part of my budget, but I believe in paying taxes.

but because that's how I invest in a better future that I can't afford

You know that future we all want and nearly every candidate promises us —

clean energy, good jobs. But a funny thing happens to our money on its way

And by the time we get around to investing in it, all we hear is,

that we have no choice but to slide backwards,

cutting things that made this country great — like schools and the EPA,

I'm sending in my share of hard-earned cash every month and so are you!

If everyone did, we'd have plenty of money.

Now, what we've got to work with shrinks a lot thanks to corporate tax loopholes

and unprecedented tax breaks for the richest 1%.

I decided to look into it and it turns out this whole "broke" story hides

— a story of some really dumb choices being made for us —

So, where is all that money going? Well first the military takes a biggest chunk --

We could build a lot of better future with that kind of money.

Spending billions on fighter planes we don't need or wars with no end, and

then saying we're broke, just isn't honest.

It's like calling your kid from your billion-dollar yacht to say you can't

Then hundreds of billions more go to propping up the dinosaur economy.

You know, the obsolete system we talked about in The Story of Stuff —

the one that produces more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any

other on Earth — and doesn't even make us happy.

but we're keeping it in on life support instead of building something better.

A lot of that life support comes in the form of subsidies.

A subsidy is a giveaway that gives some companies a lift over others.

That's not necessarily a bad thing — we should help companies that are

The problem is the government keeps lifting up companies that are actually

Everywhere you look along the dinosaur economy, you'll find these subsidies.

There's spending subsidies: where the government just gives our money away —

like payments that benefit big agribusiness, while helping drive family

Or the less obvious version where the government foots the bill for things

like cleaning up toxic chemical spills or giant livestock manure ponds.

Or building roads that go to only one place — like a new Walmart.

Or paying for polluting and wasteful garbage incinerators that would never

make financial sense to build on their own.

which excuse big corporations from contributing their fair share —

like the enormous tax breaks granted to oil and gas companies

These subsidies amount to billions of dollars we should be collecting

And there's risk transfer subsidies: where the government acts as an

investment bank and even an insurance company for corporations doing risky

If anything goes wrong, we have to cover for them.

where our government gives stuff that belongs to all of us to corporations

That's billions more we should be collecting but never see!

Like permits to mine public lands, granted at prices set in the Mining Law of 1872.

President Grant signed this law to encourage settlement of the West.

And all this doesn't even count externalized costs. They

don't show up on any spreadsheet and could amount to trillions of dollars —

public health and the climate that this dinosaur economy causes.

Without laws that make the polluters pay, we all pay with the loss of clean air and water,

By the time we've handed out all these subsidies, there isn't even enough money

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