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qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months agoAnd the current tax funded system clearly doesn’t prevent that and putting more money into it seems to only make it worse. Maybe if the people in those neighborhoods could decide how they want to invest their money and the money given to them by charities and donations instead of being dependent on their racist mayor doing the right thing and investing in their community instead of taking the money for himself and his community that would change.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, we have already established that the system as it is now is not fair.
They don’t have money to invest because they’re poor. You do understand what poverty is, yes?
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
The poor pay taxes too, in fact they pay the highest percentage of their income because they have to spend most of their income and can’t afford to invest or save. By removing the burden of taxes you give them additional funds that they could invest, save or spend on necessities and let charities, non profits, donations fund infrastructure. What’s more beneficial to a poor person, extra 2 meters of road in their neighborhood or doubling their paycheck?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The poor, at least in the U.S., are exempt from income tax.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Sales tax, gas tax, utilities tax, property tax directly or included in rent, excise, all of the taxes imposed on businesses and their owners trickle down to the consumers because they have to increase the price of their products and services to cover what they pay in taxes. Every single tax is always pushed onto the last link in the chain - the consumer, and the poor have to spend the biggest part of their paycheck on consumption.