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Actually that's pretty sketchy speaking off the cuff as a US tax payer. It's distasteful that Walmart likely has many employees on SNAP but at least they make
by somethoughts 3y ago
Actually that's pretty sketchy speaking off the cuff as a US tax payer.
It's distasteful that Walmart likely has many employees on SNAP but at least they make up for it by paying corporate income taxes (although perhaps this is debatable as to what degree).
But Harvard is a non-profit and therefore is not even paying its share into the system but benefitting fairly directly from the SNAP program.
- whimsicalism 3y agoBut don’t we have interest in directly subsidizing research? This is just another avenue.
- sinistersnare 3y agoI'd rather students can feed themselves with dignity than subsidize the education industry.
- whimsicalism 3y agoBut the salaries are subsidized too. “the education industry” -> You mean research industry?
- kadoban 3y agoSubsidizing research? Yes. Doing it by making it economically favorable that many people doing that research live in poverty, while the rewards for that research go to the rich? No.
- whimsicalism 3y agoIt’s a subsidy either way, the stuff about the rewards going to the rich seem to be rhetoric that isn’t super relevant to the issue at hand.
- kadoban 3y agoIn what way is it not relevant? We are paying for a system that rewards the few rich and strings along the many in a system of poverty and pain. So, let's fix the incentives and stop doing that. What could possibly be _more_ relevant?