i used to be for paying taxes since i thought the government was supposed to provide benefits, but i got royally fucked during this pandemic and have a radically different view now. not to mention my tax money just goes to bombing palestine. what's the point anymore?

i got the stimmys, which i guess i'm lucky to have since some didn't even get those, but i got screwed out of pandemic unemployment (i was unemployed the whole year) because I worked a part time job for 2 months in 2019, so they said i had to use up $40 a week of unemployment before i'd be eligible for pandemic unemployment which would take 11 months of $40 a week to pay off like $2000 worth of unemployment. but then since i actually do work (freelancer) then i typically make more than $40 a month (still dont make enough to live, but hey) then they say oh you must not need the $40, (i really do) so i effectively got not a single penny of unemployment and then I missed the window for pandemic unemployment.

and now on top of it all, i owe taxes on $2300 of income. i made fucking $2300 last year, ALL OF LAST YEAR and i owe more money to govt than is in my bank account today. and i owe it TODAY or i incur a late fee, which means i'll owe more. my group chat of friends is talking about how they're getting $4,000 back in their tax return and they each already got $20,000 in unemployment income in 2020. my friends are richer than they've ever been thanks to Bernie. i feel like nobody sees me. without the support of my family i'd 100% be starving in the street and that's a dose of reality to realize. it's so expensive being poor. why do poor people not matter? big kill myself vibes.