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> What if you could take the percentage of taxes that you spend every year and choose whom to help with it. Then it would be spent on pet shelters and the nati
by JulianMorrison 13y ago
> What if you could take the percentage of taxes that you spend every year and choose whom to help with it.
Then it would be spent on pet shelters and the national trust instead of homeless shelters and the national health, because middle class people fundamentally don't like poor people, and are mildly frustrated taxes go to them at all, except as a means to clear the streets of nuisance beggars.
Photogenically poor people in exotic places we can feel superior to are different, of course. Those, the middle classes will tithe to, provided it goes to "schools and infrastructure" to civilize them up.
- microcolonel 13y agoExcuse me, but where does this generalization about the middle class come from? Maybe they just want to do their part in a more effective way than having it stolen out of their income, then whittled down to a few percent, which is then distributed in obtuse ways which ruin the market forces which once made these people's lives easier year-over-year.
- goggles99 13y agoDid I not mention that there would be rules/laws involved? You may say that those with lots of money can get those laws bent in their favor, and generally this is true with the government. The people of America today are so uninvolved and uninformed that this happens without repercussions. With this system, people are going to be watching things a bit closer. They are personally vested in this whole process.