Comment on In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?

• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Wtf do you think taxes are supposed to pay for?

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• Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Free?

  Have you ever heard of taxes? That’s the way a society should finance itself, by making sure that everybody contributes to it, proportionally to their means.

  Well, that’s the theory… Never really seen that implemented properly but…

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yup. I’ve heard of taxes.

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