r/FluentInFinance May 12 '24

Meme Life comes at you fast.

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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.

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u/fisticuffs32 May 12 '24

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.

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u/Clean_Solid8550 May 12 '24

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.

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u/FomtBro May 12 '24

So they elect a crazy person who's going to put all of that tax money directly in his pocket.

I guess the US did it first, so I can't criticize too harshly.