• polinoas235 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    "As a taxpayer" oh yeah the exclusive group ofyou and everyone else who lives here and buys or sells anything in this country :yea:

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Human garbage.

    "I hate spending tax dollars on humanitarian waste. Obviously we should only use taxes to bail out Wall St like the forefathers intended."

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    3 years ago

    when i think about how i benefit from social programs: yay!!

    when i think about how other people also benefit from those same programs: wtf stop its mine

  • MerryChristmas [any]
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    3 years ago

    There are two people inside me: a loving parent and a hate-filled, wretched taxpayer. Guess which one you're dealing with today, kid?

  • steve5487 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    As a taxpayer I am mad about the incredibly expensive death machines all the money goes to

  • buh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I think making something like this universal is good even if some kids are from families that can afford to pay, since it prevents having different lunch tiers (in some places they give kids on the free lunch program a shittier, cheaper meal) and gives rich kids one less thing to bully poor kids over

    • regul [any]
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      3 years ago

      Universal programs like this are progressive for the same reason sales taxes are regressive. This is by and large true of all universal programs. In addition, they are cheaper to administer and get support from wealthier more politically engaged people and are therefore more likely to survive.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        That's the thing I never understood about penny pinching means tested programs. Even if people cheat the system, you'll need multiple bureaucracies to implement the means testing, do audits, and do enforcement for people breaking the rules, then you need to involve the legal system. How much money could you possibly be saving at the end of that?

        • steve5487 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          How much money could you possibly be saving at the end of that

          It's not about saving money it's about not being perceived to be being taken advantage of. It doesn't work because everyone totally knows somebody that knows somebody that exploits welfare

        • regul [any]
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          3 years ago

          lots of smaller metros in the US (that have transit at all) are realizing that so few people ride the buses it's cheaper to just not charge fares

          • bigboopballs [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I sure wish my local area would do that. Bus fare is fucking stupid.

        • bigboopballs [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Even if people cheat the system, you’ll need multiple bureaucracies to implement the means testing, do audits, and do enforcement for people breaking the rules, then you need to involve the legal system. How much money could you possibly be saving at the end of that?

          It may be hard to believe, but the cruelty is in fact the point. They would rather eg. pay $70k per year or whatever the fuck it costs to keep someone in jail for a year versus $15k per year to give someone enough welfare to barely scrape by.

    • Slowpoke [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Rich kids don't go to public schools, and even the ones that do don't live in school districts where kids are on the free lunch program.

      Seriously, the % of kids on free lunches you can find out about schools and serves as a metric for racists to avoid accidentally moving to diverse areas.

      • buh [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I didn't mean "1%er rich", just "rich" relative to the overall population. I went to public schools where the "rich kids" were middle class at best, but some still chose to be shitty to the poor students.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Something tells me this guy doesn't mind his tax dollars being used to drop bombs on brown people