Comment on It's that time again

• ftbd@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It really depends on what you’re getting in return. If your taxes paid for your healthcare and education, things would be different

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Best they can offer is bombs for isreal

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  • GarboDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neither did… well the K-12 education was paid, but it wasn’t the best of qualities. Having to relearn a lot of history and economics in EU now lol.

    Also off topic; was gonna say US had a specific year for when education was free but checking the history, it was really spotty when implemented and heavily disorganized. Aaaand wow found out California broke a treaty against Mexico in 1998 with Proposition 227, where it’s illegal for teachers to speak Spanish (ir any other bilingual language) in public schools. It was heavily lobbied by Californian multimillionaire Ron Unz. We don’t know if that still holds up, cuz what if the kids only speak Spanish?? Or its Spanish class??? Or the teacher is Spanish themself and are trying to find the right words to something and are like ¿cómo se llama esto? faaaahhhh”???

    Anyways USA only has the education part and it’s spotty af lol

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The checks were unfair because they went to the crown rather than back to the American people who are paying them in the first place

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  • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So what is different now?

    Is Israel, Trump’s ministers’ pockets, insurance company executives, and the military industrial complex executives considered “the american people”?

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    • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Normal the difference is the larger pool of people, and this more money for non citizen things.

      Right now… who the fuck knows

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aid paid for wars that were fought for the benefit of the colonists. Similar to how US taxes today are paid to the state and are used to pay for wars that the government claims are for the benefit of the American people.

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  • GarboDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True and real

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was also 1/10th what the British citizens were paying at the time.

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