• Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Even stuff like welfare and social benefits help the rich more than the poor. Walmart can have billions of profits while their people make so little they have to apply for aid. If aid wasn’t there, they would have to pay proper wages and their profits would be smaller.

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Fact: despite popular perception and rhetoric, the government does not actually need to issue taxes pay for things. Taxing the rich does not actually act as a source of revenue; it disincentivizes greater Extremes of price gouging and wage suppression as well as reducing the wealth disparity between the the poor and wealthy.

    Your objection is nonsensical, misleading, and damaging to the cause. Good job. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

  • FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    as opposed to the rich people doing military donations on their own? the spotify ceo invested in fucking AI military killing machines man grow up. you have no control over rich people and they have demonstrated that there is no reason to trust them. the government sucks too, but at least you get to cast a vote on how much it sucks. stop bootlicking

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    8 months ago

    this is what a whiney ass Russian says about life… this is how a coward thinks… this is what defeat looks like from inside the mind of the loser…

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      8 months ago

      I agree, memes like this act like this isn’t a reason to try. It’s an illusion to think one solution solves all problems. There are several problems here and having the wealthy pay their share will be part of the solution.

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      8 months ago

      US military is already larger than the 4 next largest militaries worldwide IIRC, so no need to worry about being a paper tiger