Your response doesn’t show that we can’t do both. We do have the resources and social science knowledge to accomplish both objectives.
I don’t really follow your theater analogy, perhaps you can provide an alternate argument so I, and others can understand why you feel that resources are scarce, limited, and the objectives are mutually exclusive.
We don’t have ‘resources’. We have a mechanism for instituting punitive taxes on a minority just because they are wealthy for a spending plan that has no clear path to success.
And who is ‘we’? Peter and Paul want to tax Bob to hand over $$ to Jack and Jill.
I don’t really follow your theater analogy, perhaps you can provide an alternate argument so I, and others can understand why you feel that resources are scarce, limited, and the objectives are mutually exclusive.