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Sorry, they are servants of the public. Maybe they ought not have been fired, but their feelings are 2nd place when their salary is funded predicated on men wi
by ty6853 2y ago
Sorry, they are servants of the public.
Maybe they ought not have been fired, but their feelings are 2nd place when their salary is funded predicated on men with guns forcing people to pay up. Maybe my feelings are hurt and I hold a grudge for being forced to pay their paycheck rather than spend that money on my family, but I'm nearly certain most of them don't care nor does much of HN.
- nickpeterson 2y agoThese firings will have no impact on your taxes. Instead of people having a job, the money will just get given to oligarchs and you’ll pay largely the same taxes but have moderately less government services. Socialism is needed to some degree for society to function. Capitalism alone is an awful system.
- scarab92 2y agoSo, basically, left wing conspiracy theories? In reality, whether taxes fall or not likely depends on whether the savings are returned in the form of income tax cuts, or whether the savings are used to repay the massive debt that has accumulated from decades of deficits. Both outcomes are good in the long run.
- throwaway173738 2y agoI hope you’re right, but I suspect you’ll be wrong. I think Obama was the last president to shrink the national debt. Clinton did before that.
- senordevnyc 2y agoPrediction: when Trump leaves office, the federal workforce, budget, and debt will all be higher than they were at the start of his second term.
- b_davis_ 2y agocome on, that was easy. for a challenge, predict how much each will go up.
- nickpeterson 2y agoWhom does income tax cuts help? Median US salary is 62k. That person pays ~12k in income taxes. Conservatives are going to ‘save’ that person 1k on their taxes or some other paltry sum and then cancel a bunch of services, fire a few hundred thousand workers, and raise tariffs to make the actual cost go up on everything that person buys.
- _dark_matter_ 2y agoFalse dichotomy. They will likely be used to continue tax cuts for the wealthiest (and corporations? I don't remember), which are set to expire. That is neither scenario that you envisioned.
- joyeuse6701 2y agoThey are humans first, public servants second. We are in the business of governing and employing humans. A wise government would acknowledge this truth. Emotions are the motivator for everything, the question is, which emotion is getting the better of the human today? The better angel of their nature, or the other, darker one, that ineptitude stoked into relevance? Everyone has a breaking point, for them, it’s losing a livelihood, for you, sadly, it’s the garnishing of your wage for the collective good.
- throwaway173738 2y agoI take it you’d also be fine paying 100% of the cost of the roads you use to buy food for your family? Men with guns take money from my family to pay for your roads after all.
- ty6853 2y agoAbsolutely privatize them all. The roads for miles around my house are private easement (no tax) that are publicly accessible and it works beautifully. I built my own roads to access my land and it's great, my property taxes are near 0.