Surely this is what I’m paying taxes for.

Could go to healthcare for all, fixing my roads and access to education, creating a strong resilient nation for all of us.

But this is so much better.

Indeed, each of these checks would pay for a staff scientist (at the NIH or a research university) for the next few decades. Or a teacher.

And arguably, had we done that then we wouldn't be dealing with this now.

This is what an oligarchy looks like.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have “oligarch-democrat” as explicitly stated as “social-democrat”?

Everywhere a candidate’s name is printed.

>Wouldn’t it be nice to have “oligarch-democrat”

it is already called "Republican".

It's also called "Democrat." There is no non-plutocratic alternative in the US.

Don't forget a lot of your federal taxes go to financing overseas wars and other military interventions. Some of it also goes to prop up oppressive regimes; and lets not forget funding Al-Qaeda-associated Islamist fundamentalist militias.