cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6150828

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
    ·
    6 hours ago

    I'm not normally a "taxation is theft" guy, but that's a lifechanging amount of money for almost anyone I know and they're fucking stealing it from us to fund genocide.

    • regul [any]
      ·
      5 hours ago

      I'm normally a huge pedant, so I'll point out that using the median would change this number a lot. America is an incredibly unequal country. The average salary in the US was ~$70k, but the median is ~$43k.

      Total federal obligations on $70k is $13k.

      For $43k it's $6.5k.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
    ·
    9 hours ago

    Meanwhile estimates suggest it'll take about 80 billion to rebuild Gaza, nearly 10 times as much as was given to Israel to destroy it.

    • ryepunk [he/him]
      ·
      6 hours ago

      the-democrat that's the best thing about it, I know just the company to rebuild it for the Palestinians!

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
    ·
    11 hours ago

    I live in a genocide machine and my every movement propels it forward. Time to dissociate for a bit.

  • Yukiko [she/her]
    ·
    11 hours ago

    The bottom right part of that graphic depresses me.

  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee
    ·
    13 hours ago

    Ah, but you must understand, how else would they (politicians, lobbyists, generals, etc.) perform graft and corruption to enrich themselves? This is the only way things could’ve happened!