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Republicans are all pro-life, no abortion yada yada, but they are so against increasing minimum wage. Against child credits, which is a huge help to parents and
by nojvek 3y ago
Republicans are all pro-life, no abortion yada yada, but they are so against increasing minimum wage. Against child credits, which is a huge help to parents and did in fact reduce child poverty. Seems like a double standard when their actions seem making life worse for those who are alive.
At this point, the US is hybrid artificial hive-mind intelligence optimizing for creating the largest megacorp monopolies in the world instead of optimizing for their working population.
- gnz11 3y ago> At this point That’s been US policy for the last 100 years or so, especially post-WWII. Citing Chomsky, et al.
- asylteltine 3y agoI don’t want my taxes to pay for your children. If you have children, that’s your burden.
- Argonaut998 3y agoTaxes pay for all sorts of things that ‘we don’t like’. It’s a benign statement. Certainly, paying taxes for daycare is more fruitful for the country as a whole rather than paying taxes for welfare for those who do not work (yet have many children) — a huge net negative for society, and of course taxes for waging war which you don’t seem to bat an eye at.
- claudiulodro 3y agoToday's children will be enabling your future retirement. You're going to be their burden, whether it's paying for your social security or keeping the value of your stocks high.
- anon291 3y agoThe child credits also causes inflation. I benefitted a lot form them and even I can see that. I can't imagine a more disastrous policy at this time than expanding those.