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Comment on The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere.

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gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I don’t know if I love that phrase’s use here as it sets up the government as some foreign entity that is stealing from you when, at least in theory, it should be the price you pay for your community’s betterment. Of course that’s not what it feels like in the US (maybe anywhere, maybe federal taxes feel bad always), but that’s an argument for redistributing power and fixing the underlying systems more so than it is to be upset that taxes are a thing (or paint them as… Evil or something which this phrase does).

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UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That is the point. The taxes are reality, you are going to pay them. Whether they are evil or not depends on what that money is used for.

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- anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  “Reach into your pocket” makes it sound as if they’re stealing from you. Which, if you live in the USA, is mostly true.
  
  In functioning democratic societies those taxes pay for things that benefit the citizens. At least that is the states goal, and if they steal it, they get votes out.
  
  I think you guys need to start voting with your bullets.
  
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