• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Biggest tax scams foisted on us by those in power and their buddies:

    1. All taxes are bad
    2. Private is always better than public
    3. Cutting taxes to the bone will always benefit you.

    On the other hand I’m sick of seeing funds designated for a specific use (like education) that end up being used for everything else instead.

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      22 days ago

      especially since we saw how high taxes lead to a large middle class and lowering them has been eroding it ever since.

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          22 days ago

          we should not even need that. we see historically it results in short term boost and long term suffering. we keep digging that hole lower and don’t understand how we are not getting out.

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              21 days ago

              yeah. unfortunately we live in an age where we constantly have to prove that vaccines and masks are good for preventing contagion and the earth is getting hotter due to us putting various things in the air and that water is wet.

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                  20 days ago

                  Unfortunately its hard to give comfort from my perspective as I getcha and we see the stuff and we know its from stuff we saw coming but the ones with money and power call the shots. I think Ive felt similarly with like bombed out complexes with ukraine. I mean like even if they were all alive the thought of all those homes gone. We have a building across the street that had a fire like a half decade ago. It mostly rebuilt but still surrounded by construction fence. I don’t think anyone living there before will be living there when its finally occupable again. Im sorry I don’t mean to add to the stuff I more want to relate that you are not alone. Other people see it and are sad, depressed, anxious, etc. it sucks and yeah I hate it.

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                    20 days ago

                    Thanks for getting it. I need to spend more time outdoors because it’s so distressing and me being miserable doesn’t help anyone.

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      21 days ago

      education is almost always the last thing heavily funded in the usa, even if its funded its very inadequate. even in middle income neighborhoods , the students are still barely passing hs with ALGEBRA, and 9th grade english skills at best. of course theres exceptions, theres always 1 or 2 near-genius intellect students in each graduating class. AI has so far degraded the learning abilities of students from an already low point of education.