1 yr. ago • 87%

Poor me gollum gollum

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I hate good roads/public transportation/healthcare/education/parks! How dare they take my money for that

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- I just hate that more of it goes to causing conflicts in nations thousands of miles away, instead of providing affordable healthcare for people who are paying the taxes.
  
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  yeah... taxes are unfortunately often misused in the interest of the rich
  
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  It really depends. Ukraine right now for example is fighting for it's existence and greatly appreciates our weapons. And many new systems may never be used other than as a deterrent for nations like China against getting any ideas about Tiwan. But US has definitely had useless and unjust wars, sometimes kinda colonial.
  
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- I do wish they used it more effectively, but asking the government for sane spending habits isn't gonna do much
  
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  Well, the problem isn't taxation in it of itself, but the "democratic" goverments in place for the interests of the rich 10%
  
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- I would give America a failing grade in 4 of those and a DNP for healthcare.
  
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  Lmao! I mostly agree except for parks, America is pretty good at protecting nature and public space compared to the rest of the world.
  
  Teddy Roosevelt was a real one.
  
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Meh. I like good schools and roads and fire departments.

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- All of those things keep getting defunded and my taxes keep going up
  
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  Stop voting for politicians who promises to do exactly those things.
  
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- That's it. I'm not mad I pay taxes. That money goes to (mostly) good things.
  
  I'm mad I generate surplus value for my boss. That money goes to his new car and swimming pool.
  
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Can't relate, I don't earn enough to get taxed by the government

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More like

The money I generate

My boss

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- Pretty sure my taxes don't go to multibillionaires, but now that you mention it I'm having doubts.
  
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  They do. Just look at how much money the US government throws at Musk's various projects for a start.
  
  A deeper insight that is worth developing is that the amount of money a person requires to be able to live a vaguely secure and stable life is the minimum baseline cost of hiring that person as a full-time employee. As a result any time a government is required to step in to provide financial support to an individual in full-time employment in order for them to get by, that is the government paying that person's wages for the company for the economic benefit of that company that person works for and is exactly equivalent to if that business was paying the full cost to secure that employee and then was just randomly being handed money from the government. Financial benefits from the state to employed people is just a handout to those people's employers but structured to look like social support so people don't get uppity and demand wealth owners spend less on yachts and more on paying the actual cost of the labour that produces the wealth in the first place.
  
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  Not your taxes but your surplus value.
  
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Big Deagol energy

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our'sssss, precious.

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Somehow it always feels like it's their birthday 🎈

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- Give it to ussss! We needsss it!
  
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So, the rich are Frodo because they still from the government?

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I'm fine with the taxes as it goes to good things. The corperations stealing money from workers I'm not fine with. I make great income so I'll be voting with my money.

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