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*sigh* There's a meme going around that like everyone on my family-and-coworker feed are passing around, complaining how much they pay in taxes and declaring themselves to be slaves to the government tax machine or something.
And I'm just over here like "I just called 911 on a gunshot going off outside my window last night, and I live down the street from the fire station, a street, btw, that my taxes paid for, and I grew up in the library which is why I have such a high vocabulary and know as much as I know and my current library provides me with a high tech recording booth for my podcast that I can use for free..."
I mean, we can argue over the specific places that our taxes go, and how much of the tax they collect goes to what, but it's not like the government is just taking our money. We are *paying* for things in exchange. Y'all want to live in a capitalistic society, shit costs money. We get stuff BACK for what we pay.
Now, I, personally, didn't particularly want to get a bloated military and way overpaid politicians who keep taking away my rights. So I'm going to complain about stuff like that. But not about the concept of taxes in general. Those taxes pay for things we get in return. Just like everything else in capitalism. Taxes are an exchange for actual things we get that only something as big as a government can provide.
If you don't like some of the things that they provide, fine, you can take that up with them (go vote!). But I better as fuck not ever see you driving your cars on paved roads again, or calling the cops for fucking anything (especially black people just living).
And I'm just over here like "I just called 911 on a gunshot going off outside my window last night, and I live down the street from the fire station, a street, btw, that my taxes paid for, and I grew up in the library which is why I have such a high vocabulary and know as much as I know and my current library provides me with a high tech recording booth for my podcast that I can use for free..."
I mean, we can argue over the specific places that our taxes go, and how much of the tax they collect goes to what, but it's not like the government is just taking our money. We are *paying* for things in exchange. Y'all want to live in a capitalistic society, shit costs money. We get stuff BACK for what we pay.
Now, I, personally, didn't particularly want to get a bloated military and way overpaid politicians who keep taking away my rights. So I'm going to complain about stuff like that. But not about the concept of taxes in general. Those taxes pay for things we get in return. Just like everything else in capitalism. Taxes are an exchange for actual things we get that only something as big as a government can provide.
If you don't like some of the things that they provide, fine, you can take that up with them (go vote!). But I better as fuck not ever see you driving your cars on paved roads again, or calling the cops for fucking anything (especially black people just living).
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Date: 4/12/20 01:41 pm (UTC)From:That says so much about understanding what's going on in the U.S.