So let’s do nothing at all.
How dare you! They made a meme.
I read it as suggesting we should do more, not less.
It has a hopeless/fatalistic tone. That is off-putting to some of us.
deleted by creator
Or we prioritize other objectives first, like gutting corruption and FINDING THE MISSING BILLIONS OF PENTAGON DOLLARS.
There’s already a fuck ton of money, it’s just misappropriated.
¿Por que no los dos?
Because that would involve actually improving things, instead of spreading disinterest and apathy in change.
Find me a candidate that’d work toward of these objectives and they’d have my vote, assuming I can stomach the rest of their politics.
But it seems to me that the greater focus there is on a single matter, the more likely it is to change. And the mildustry complex is probably the greatest threat to the planet right now imho.
the mildustry complex is the greatest threat to the planet right no imho.
They’re probably second when it comes to existential threats to life. The greatest threat is big oil.
Politics is like the bus: it’s not likely to take you exactly where you want to go, but it’ll get you in the area.
You want to go directly there? You’re gonna have to drive yourself.
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…
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.
JFC. Yes, both problems exist, and the barrier to taxing the rich are the cunts in control. Cut them out, then the money will go where it needs to and we have greater control over who gets taxed what.
Oh no, I’ve been labeled a coward for an unpopular opinion on
checks notes
tax policy
I’m all for taxing the rich, and paying taxes, so long as the funds go to programs that don’t blow up children in foreign countries.
Another constructive comment adjusted by view on the matter.
what if your Taxes go to Programs that help Ukraine and Taiwan not be annexed by brutal Dictators?
“so long as” is the weak point in your approach, IMO. There are separate problems. If you insist on solving them together, probably you fail to do anything. Work on both, but don’t insist on a single grand solution.
all i can do is try to help
Stabbing in the dark with misattribution isn’t helping…it’s closer to being what you claim me to be: an agent if misinformation.
those labels will get you one way or another
This meme has been brought to you by an anonymous Asian country’s disinformation campaign.
Please give up.
You have been banned from hexhear for unrelated reasons
deleted by creator
Yes comrade! Allocation is an equal issue! Do not question the propaganda that makes you think this.
Let the frustration flow through you until you recognize the only option is to give up.
continues typing furiously from behind the great firewall of china
Did you just manage to roll
Chinawith your cyber attribution dice?
This is why we tax and eat them.
Now this is a policy I can get behind.
All military spending comprises ~10-15% of the budget, just a FYI.
The military budget isn’t stopping anything. In 2022, $4.1 Trillion was spent on mandatory programs (social security, Medicare, Medicaid, income security).
Social security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone were just shy of $3 Trillion.
It’s still a rediculously large military budget and it’s incredible how much we spend on our social programs only for them to still suck ass
Fixing our social programs would go so far to make things better without even changing anything else at all.
The amount of money spent isn’t the issue, it’s how inefficiently it’s spent.
Agreed!
I think that was part of my thinking with my hot take.
I’m all for the rich paying their fair share, but maximizing what we already have is important too.
Admittedly, I thought these percentages were different.
Not above admitting when I’m wrong.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-national-defense
No worries.
A part of that is that there’s the entire budget of all federal outlays and then “the budget” which is what the President requests and Congress authorizes.
That is solely the discretionary spending. It’s unfortunate that it’s the only thing that actually gets talked about in the media.
Related, but interest on the debt is set to pass military spending like next year even.
if the military industrial complex gets rich then they are also taxed
And so the hawkish death cycle continues!
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. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Thanks for sharing a perspective that I hadnt considered. I certainly agree that corporate greed is detrimental and plays a key role in governmental corruption.
Yeah but it ends up in our hands for a few minutes and that’s the point
Not true and even if true I’m ok with it, I love lockmart, nuke the Kremlin.
Any concern for retaliatory strikes? Guess the poor needn’t worry about going hungry if they’re dust, right?
Assuming Russian nukes even work.
The Kremlin Gremlin isn’t poor. He sure should be dust tho.
Safe to assume they boom, otherwise we would have invaded long ago.
If rather have a military armed to the teeth than the super rich getting even richer.
US military is already larger than the 4 next largest militaries worldwide IIRC, so no need to worry about being a paper tiger
Are you suggesting we must choose between monarchy and fascism?
You can have a well armed military without being fascist?
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
I’m all for taxing the rich, but I’m even more for rooting out the corruption that enables the rich to become the monsters they are. This isn’t bootlicking, its holding the opinion that the priorities are out of order.
Thanks for sharing your perspective.
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.
Taxing the rich means their money will go straight to government. Just have corporations pay workers more, so it goes straight to the people. Taking the rich is a stupid fucking movement, people should be emphasizing paying the workers more
