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I will not receive social security or medicare/medicaid, as they are actively being gutted today. Our military goes on adventures I have never supported (Iraq?

I will not receive social security or medicare/medicaid, as they are actively being gutted today. Our military goes on adventures I have never supported (Iraq? Afghanistan?). I am not entitled to VA benefits. My education was trash. I’ll grant you fire depts & transportation, though the transport stuff isn’t at all properly invested in. I don’t care to make car companies more money. These are all the same as nothing to me. You can split hairs and say I am getting something not nothing, but that doesn’t change the lived experience of being poor, sick, and badly educated in the wealthiest nation. This world doesn’t exist for people like me— it exists for all you folks. And boy, lemme tell ya… I would be super happy to burn your world to the ground, and I say that with horror in my eyes as I look at the fires that Elon is starting.

dasil003 2y ago
Just because you don't support the decisions about how the military is deployed doesn't mean you don't benefit from its existence. Being an American citizen already comes out of the box with a bunch of benefits, and I'm unaware of any place with a similar standard of living that has lower taxes overall.
- riku_iki 2y ago
  but are you sure if those standards of living are because of striving economy and hardworking people or because of military adventures?
JackYoustra 2y ago
who is "all you folks"? Kinda, how do you say, too vague to be useful? and I'm sorry you were poor, sick, and badly educated, but the closest thing to "don't do that" was the American Rescue Plan's permanent child tax credit which cut child poverty in half and oh god wait that's a scheme in a huge bill and I've already lost everyone because that's still too complicated and now it's gone. That's the problem. Every time you repeat the cynical meme that nothing can be done and all taxes are wasted and everything you sap strength from the progress that can be made when we actually pull in the same direction: https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/the-official-way-america-calculates-poverty-is-deeply-flawed https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/the-offi... (see the image: https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=80,format=auto/sites/default/files/images/2019/09/articles/body/20190928_src552.png https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=8...)

dasil003 2y ago

Just because you don't support the decisions about how the military is deployed doesn't mean you don't benefit from its existence. Being an American citizen already comes out of the box with a bunch of benefits, and I'm unaware of any place with a similar standard of living that has lower taxes overall.

riku_iki 2y ago
but are you sure if those standards of living are because of striving economy and hardworking people or because of military adventures?

JackYoustra 2y ago

who is "all you folks"? Kinda, how do you say, too vague to be useful? and I'm sorry you were poor, sick, and badly educated, but the closest thing to "don't do that" was the American Rescue Plan's permanent child tax credit which cut child poverty in half and oh god wait that's a scheme in a huge bill and I've already lost everyone because that's still too complicated and now it's gone. That's the problem. Every time you repeat the cynical meme that nothing can be done and all taxes are wasted and everything you sap strength from the progress that can be made when we actually pull in the same direction: https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/the-official-way-america-calculates-poverty-is-deeply-flawed https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/the-offi... (see the image: https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=80,format=auto/sites/default/files/images/2019/09/articles/body/20190928_src552.png https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=8...)