There’s also the feedback loop where they point at the broken underfunded public services and are like “see how shit public services are? They’re a waste of taxes. We could gut them to save you money”
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running_ragged@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The GOP is fully to blame.
They sell the American public on the idea that any taxes are bad, no matter what they are meant to fund. When they are in power they cut public services, give tax breaks to corporations, and schedule tax raises to occur when they’re out of power.
When they aren’t in power they yell about taxes nonstop to make sure democrats are too scared to re-fund them, so they don’t get voted out.
Cycle after cycle, and now there’s no money to give the teachers.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
BranBucket@lemmy.world 44 minutes ago
Absolutely intentionally designed to be that way by the GOP and blatantly obvious when you look at their voting records.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
They’ve conditioned people to be so against taxes that you have a significant portion of the public saying things like, “why should my taxes fund public schools if my children graduated 20 years ago?”
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve heard people say this with my own IRL ears. It’s completely indefensible.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s a very common sentiment. It comes from people with no kids as well, which is bad enough, but when it’s boomers who had kids go to public school for k-12, it’s just another level.
BranBucket@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
One of their main arguments against taxes is that government will always waste tax dollars due to corruption and incompetence… Which is a self fulfilling prophecy, as they’ve proven to be some of the most corrupt and incompetent political leaders in history.