Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes?

MudMan@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  do you think this post is serious

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  • Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Given Americans, it wouldn’t surprise me

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As an American, while I can’t tell you if this OP is serous, I can tell you there are many here that do feel that way

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      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m Canadian and I agree with OP. if any service I was paying for was gone for a month and I was still billed for it, I’d call the company and demand a refund. Of course, I’d have the ability to threaten to cut ties with the company and get service elsewhere. Unfortunately, that isn’t an easy option with government services.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You accidentally just explained why it’s incredibly unacceptable for the government to be shut down.

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  • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not accidentally - everyone knows this is stupid it’s just a dumb game congress plays.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I say accidentally because they were making a different point. They’re focused on hating Americans for supposedly only caring about getting a tax refund when the actual point was that there should be consequences for the government fucking its own people so hard

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But what non-dysfunctional government that doesn’t behave like it is a subscription service shuts down regularly?

  This forces OP to asking themselves (albeit somewhat jokingly) this kind of question. Why should they be a proud contributing member of a society when the body receiving these contributions does not properly perform their contribution to society? Is it really only an American who might ask themselves such a question?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But what non-dysfunctional government that doesn’t behave like it is a subscription service shuts down regularly?

    A well-functioning government never shuts down, let alone regularly.

    That doesn’t mean that the people should forgo their contribution to shared civilization, though.

    The current kakistocracy misappropriating funds doesn’t mean that the parts of the government they haven’t ruined doesn’t need tax revenue.

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  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    America bad. Sweden perfect. China perfect. Botswana perfect

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• rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have this exact feeling when “discussing” this topic with folks that believe a country should be run as a business. It’s so misguided! People are residents, not employees, and they shouldn’t be able to be fired by the country they are living in. This “firing” does seem to be happening in the US right now, tho 👎

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Taxes are a fee for government services. People shouldn’t pat fir services they aren’t getting. They deserve at least a partial refund

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