Submitted 1 hour ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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US spends 1,000,000,000,000/year on a military, drastically more than every other country on earth combined, and some wastral is somehow whining about the nothing we spend on saving millions of human lives that also, get this, gives us soft power that is drastically outsized to the cost of the spending.
Huh, duh, I wonder if a country that can spend a trillion dollar/yr on its military can spend 1/1000 of that to save people and give us leverage on trade/resources/etc.
Nah, tax bad
You paying taxes is good. Me paying taxes is bad.
A more stable world is financially beneficial. Allies are strategically beneficial. The eradication and minimization of pests and disease are both.
You’re against taxes because you want small government.
I’m against taxes because I want capitalism gone.
We are not the same.
Thats not true
Explain!
Or you allowed your leadership to do something so egregious that you as a country need to pay reparations.
Impossible
Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
We’re not putting enough heads beneath a suspended blade, rather.
I want my money to be used to feed kids, provide housing to those in need, fund education and healthcare. I want that money to build safer roads and more greenspace, to expand public transportation and to make life better for the majority who live here.
I don’t care if my taxes feed a family who “doesn’t need it.” I just don’t want my fucking money to go to harming and killing innocent people anywhere in the world.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Tax bad
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Don’t drive on public roads. Don’t send your kids to school. Don’t call the fire department or police. Don’t pay your taxes.