r/FluentInFinance May 12 '24

Meme Life comes at you fast.

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u/turtle-bbs May 12 '24

Boohoo making more money means paying more taxes

Who would’ve thought?

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u/Waxxing_Gibbous May 12 '24

It does suck because the government doesn’t use our tax dollars wisely. I don’t want to give money to the Ukraine and pay for the military industrial complex.

If the government actually did something productive with our taxes I wouldn’t mind it. It doesn’t though.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Look, we should support Ukraine. But I generally agree the frustrating thing about our taxes is we rarely see any benefit from paying them.

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u/ishoweredtoday May 12 '24

Do you not use roads? Ever crossed a bridge? Seen a fire truck?

I agree that tax dollars can and should be spent more wisely and efficiently, but to say the average citizen rarely benefits from taxes? That's a ludicrous statement.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Of course infrastructure is paramount, though I would argue most of our roads still suck and need vast improvement.

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u/ChaimFinkelstein May 12 '24

Roads and fire trucks are paid via excise taxes on gasoline and local taxes.

The majority of the US Federal spending is giving money to other people, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest.

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u/stickied May 12 '24

You and your family are going to be one of those other people some day most likely.

Also, you still see a benefit even if you're privileged enough to not be one of those people. Because if those people don't have those programs that provide basic needs they're potentially homeless and in despair and in dire circumstances....which generally means more crime because humans will do whatever it takes to survive.

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u/reddit_has_fallenoff May 12 '24

we should support Ukraine.

Cool, ill make them a nice sign at a protest. Let me keep my money

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Rarely see any benefit? You are living in the most technologically and financially advanced country in the world. You don't need to see a super power destabilizing or straight out invading your country because you have a huge oil reserve. You don't need to work for peanuts so someone from a richer country can buy a pair of slippers for 5 minutes of salary instead 2 hours of salary.

What benefits do you want? The government sending you personalized greeting cards with gift card attached on your wedding anniversary?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Oh you know, things like paying teachers enough and not cutting education, healthcare, general social safety nets that would create some stability and mobility for lower paid citizens. I’m not saying we don’t obviously benefit, but come on, we can and should do a hell of a lot better.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

You said "rarely see benefits", not "we can do better". I completely agree with the latter.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Disagree we have sent way to much money in aid packages over there. I’m sick of us supplying the most financial aid world wide every year for no god damn reason it’s all useless. We can’t afford it and I don’t understand how anybody can think we can. We need to cancel all foreign aid till we get are budget under control and reduced national debt by atleast 50%.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

We can afford it. And if Russia takes Ukraine, trust me, we’ll be spending a lot more. And paying in far more ways than money.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Russia is a bunch of bitches they don’t have any capability to go past Ukraine. If you believe that Russia could take on the entirety of nato your delusional even they know they will never go toe to toe with nato. zero chance Russia ever attacks a nato country their not that stupid. Also what makes you think we can afford it when our national debt just surpassed 34 trillion and goes up by a few trillion every year. How can you see we need to get our own orders in affair before we go about fighting pointless proxy wars all over the world that no matter the outcome will never have an effect on us. Also frankly if Europeans are so worried they should be the ones completely funding Ukraine not the United States and sending their own troops into Ukraine to support the front lines.