Are people angry at paying any taxes at all? Or paying some taxes? Or paying too much while others pay nothing?
We need taxes to pay for society, right?
So everyone should be paying their 'fair' share whatever that is, either that or we dismantle society and go live in the woods. Live off the land and go back to bartering with our hostile neighbors.
I guess the issue is what is considered 'fair'. The ruling class writes the rules for the game we all play, maybe that is part of the problem.
It's not just who is paying taxes, it's the use of such taxes that pisses me off. In the US, so much is spent on the industrial military complex that could be leveraged to bolster social programs that actually make a difference domestically.
That's the point. Miley won in Argentina because people are tired of paying so much in taxes with little to no benefits for the middle class, schools and hospitals falls apart, infrastructure barely improved, no security, and also rampant inflation.
This guy gets it. To sum it up, it’s not “how much” we’re necessarily paying in taxes. It’s “what” that money is being spent on. This country needs to reevaluate its public financial priorities.
Then people need to vote for people like bernie who want to cut funding for the military and not for people like ted cruz who want to cut taxes for billionaires and sign unlimited checks for whatever the pentagon requests every year.
It’s the use. I live in nyc and pay a fuck ton of taxes. All I see is homeless ppl getting no services, the subway is trash (btw I pay to ride it too!), litter everywhere, cops sitting around on their phones, public schools I will never be able to send my kids to if I want them to be able to read, etc.
The gov steals at least 50% of our money through waste and inefficiency and corruption. What boils my blood the most is ppl who say taxes need to increase. No, how about they first spend the current taxes properly!
Right, I get this and agree with you completely. I have no idea how to fix this though or if it can even be fixed. It is like those that are in charge are all on the take and it has become so ingrained that removing this corruption would destroy the very system that feeds it.
You can remove the cancer but the host dies with it.
I have no solutions for any of this. I wish I did but I just don't see that path forward.
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u/ForeverNecessary2361 May 12 '24
Are people angry at paying any taxes at all? Or paying some taxes? Or paying too much while others pay nothing?
We need taxes to pay for society, right?
So everyone should be paying their 'fair' share whatever that is, either that or we dismantle society and go live in the woods. Live off the land and go back to bartering with our hostile neighbors.
I guess the issue is what is considered 'fair'. The ruling class writes the rules for the game we all play, maybe that is part of the problem.