You can’t do anything meaningful on the country-wide scale for $20bln. The US social security budget is over a trillion dollars, the highest budget expense, and it is not nearly enough. Your “progressive” (read ideologically left) friends are posting it for the feel-good ingroup applause lights without ever checking the sources. Not very much different from “covid is a Chinese/Liberal conspiracy”.
You can’t do anything meaningful on the country-wide scale for $20bln. The US social security budget is over a trillion dollars, the highest budget expense, and it is not nearly enough. Your “progressive” (read ideologically left) friends are posting it for the feel-good ingroup applause lights without ever checking the sources. Not very much different from “covid is a Chinese/Liberal conspiracy”.