NO POLITICS!!! 😡😡

Also: I'd rather pay the government for healthcare than pay an insurance company, who then pays the doctors.

Woah why are you being so political!!!!!

Even if it does, I will still occasionally give them a little bit extra when the time and opportunity comes.

I dont care if there are lazy unmotivated people getting food and housing with my taxes.

Or feeding the homeless and housing the hungry.

What I DON’T want my tax money going to is rich people and corporations why don’t fucking need it.

I don’t mind if a homeless person spends money on things other than the bare essentials.

Mutual aid rules

I don’t mind if my taxes go to funding people who want to doss around making weird art, impractical furniture and/or shit music all day

Thats exactly where I want my taxes to go.

Hell, I don't mind if my taxes destroy the housing market entirely. A housing market should not even exist until everyone has a house.

But if we help one group, other people in need might want help too. /s

Hell yeah!

The world needs more of those things. Especially weird art.

Right. And it might cost us the ability to build three or so supersonic foreigner killing rockets. Gotta prioritize ability to create pain and suffering over basic human decency. (Hopefully this is obviously sarcasm.)

Yes please. Public option.

Shut up tankie!!! /s

Question why there are any hungry and homeless.

I’m happy to pay for the supportive housing, prescriptions and dental for individuals experiencing homelessness.

What are you some kind of commie? Next you are going to ask why we have the orphan crushing machine probably

Then how are we gonna be millionaire if we give handouts to everyone 😡 ^/s^

Its 100% better than taxbreaks to AI

Im sorry, it was mistake! MODS DELETE THE POST! 😡

I mean whos gonna kill brown kids if we stop making them?

I'm fine with housing and feeding the homeless, like block apartments and staples.

... but everyone will despise it. Low-income housing of any kind seems to create an entire new set of problems.

How does your country handle it? If you made this the law of the land in the USA it would immediately explode. The feds are not to be trusted, I mean, look at it. What a shithole.

Concentrating people of little means into a small area ostracizes them and removes them from areas with opportunity, arguably making them more desperate.

Poor people need to be mixed in with everybody else. The areas with the highest rates of social mobility in the US have the most mixing between classes. People in need will get support from people of means if they are seen as their neighbors and community members. And interacting with middle/ upper class families demonstrates to poorer kids how to manage money, how to seize opportunity, how to walk the walk and talk the talk of affluence, etc.

Pull harder on your bootstraps! Duh.

Because we haven't eaten them yet

shit music

I feel seen

That would increase the costs astronomically, I don't see how that's feasible... and I've been very poor, and would still chose to live in a poor neighborhood with poor prices and cheap food.

Dropping me off in the middle of Park Ave, where a sandwich can cost $20 or more? No thank you.

Same. I’d rather my taxes help people survive than disappear into waste and excuses.

I'd gladly pay more to have everyone be able to eat and sleep comfortably.

If we got rid of the extra 50% profit all these companies charge us, we could easily pay for all the things we need and more.

I have no problem paying more to help people, but we are paying more to hurt people now and it doesn't make sense.

Bent: over.

Buttcheeks: spread.

Bootstraps: pulled.

Ready, Cap'n! 🫡

Vienna has over 60% of people living in government subsidized affordable housing. California has less than 5% of people living in government subsidized affordable housing. Do you think that Vienna just has more money to spend on affordable housing than California?

Money is not the problem. This is an already solved problem. The only reason homelessness exists is because a few wealthy people benefit from high housing prices. All we need to do is just copy Vienna's homework. Instead, right wingers are copying USA's homework and now homelessness has increased in Vienna for the first time in a decade.

There's a bit of a capitalist propaganda over here (even if unintentional). The underpriviledge class in many ways exists because of wealth inequality. And statement like this normalizes putting the burden of the underpriviledge class back on to the working class (this underpriviledged class is often also part of the working class). This will further create wealth inequality.

So yes, we should support underpriviledged class but we should also understand the bigger picture and demand that these supports should come from the owning class either through wealth tax or by increasing the minimum wage etc.

Spreading cheek and pulling bootstraps at the same time?? You’ll go far!

One problem at a time. First we stop the working class and the underprivileged classes from fighting with each other. Then we all team up against the oligarchy.

I'd prefer it quite frankly above everything else.

Fucking Commie! /s

They ripped off, fuck!

We should have a well thought out and agreed upon list of priorities and everyone eats and sleeps inside should be the first things. The money should all go there first

My libertarian friend says this same thing. Taxes are a scam and they just print the money they need.

But is it true ?

I'm trying to figure out what else my taxes should be spent on. Maybe schools, infrastructure, and elder care?

Taxes bootstrap the value of the currency, and are a crucial inflation control mechanism.

The accounting connection between tax revenue and funding provided by a national government is entirely specious and imaginary.

My coworker does ... he said the poor make more money than me or him and if we quit our jobs we'd be making just as much. I mean, we're in tech, I highly doubt the "poor" are as "rich" as he thinks. I had to tell him that I'm not a DOGE/Musk fan even though we live in Canada ... I said I'm very much a progressive. However, I asked him (since I don't have any kids and he does) if he'd like to cut me a check for all the tax dollars I've lost due to educating his children ...

OK, so every person should just stop paying them right now. What are they gonna do if we all do it ?

I wish.

As with any complex concept, incomplete information tends toward imprecise interpretation, and as such I encourage further exploration.

...and even if we could turn off the orphan crushing machine, how then would orphans be crushed??

I'm super concerned they'll be used to kill kids for being brown or murder me for being queer or fund cops who will hold the train doors open at every single station harassing passengers to the point there's a disclaimer on arrival times now.

If I thought they might get used to feed and house and educate and doctor people, even if it wasn't super efficient; I might even pay them. Hell I'd probably pay extra. Try to work for the government or something. If that's what the government did.

Anyway I'm still an illegalist.

I don't disagree at all with the statement, but this really isn't a meme in any form, not even a political one.