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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?

Humana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Generations of conservative politicians have sold Americans the idea that government should be run like a business. That if it were fun like a business it would be sunshine and rainbows with low taxes, and high quality services. Many people do genuinely believe this.

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aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It is being run like a business: poorly. Exactly how most businesses run.

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- Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  With a man at the top making stupid amounts of money at the expense of everyone else.
  
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FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If government were a business, it would refund people’s money when they don’t get the service they paid for

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- Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That violates the very first Rule of Acquisition. You clearly don’t have the lobes for business.
  
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- Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Only if there’s a government to force them.
  
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Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They got their wish.

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