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Taxes are cool
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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CluckN@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is this AI upscaled?
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hope so
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
It would explain why it looks like crap
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Erm, pretty sure thats ai
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Sex work is still work. They deserve dignity and recognition for what they do for the rest of us. In my moments of solitude only Lulu brings warmth to my life. She’s awesome. I hope things go well to all you guys who do porn for us ugly people.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tax evasion is no grey area!
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fantastic
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Taxes are fine so long as they are fair and apply to everyone.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Including all businesses, which disproportionately benefit from publicly funded infrastructure.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I was thinking religious organizations and the ultra wealthy, but you’re right as businesses would cover those.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Taxes are cool when they work properly. The problem with taxes right now is that we’re not really getting much benefit for what we pay and those that have the most are not paying their fair share. Not only that, a large portion of our tax money is going directly to those companies that refuse to pay taxes.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
In the U.K. we have this really cool thing known as “in work benefits” where the government tops up your income cause companies pay such shit wages.
Reform, one of the popular right wing parties wants to cut the benefits bill, which will include this and pensions. It’s exciting to find out how much damage that will cause, if they get in.
daggermoon@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Mommy Sasha
Decoy321@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Locking this thread because some of y’all are so dumb it’s unnerving.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TVTA
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Five Guys plus One
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Funny, but taxes ARE cool. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to do the research by living in any number of failed states.
Don’t be that guy that goes to dinner with a large group of friends then skips out on the bill.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Nothing inherently wrong with taxation. The problems are how taxes are determined, how they’re collected, and how that money is distributed.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Exactly. Conceptually, taxation isn’t left, but the way some government use those funds absolutely is theft.
Not to mention how angry people are about taxation, but are also completely unaware that conceptually, profit is actually left of your surplus value.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
Modern governments with their own Fiat currencies don’t use taxes to pay for anything. Taxes money doesn’t get distributed, it gets destroyed to control inflation.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
paved roads/wastewater treatment/food safety/free public education intensifies
“The government is robbing us blind! It’s just like before the American Revolution, the winning local/state political candidate isn’t the one that I voted for, this is oppression!”
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rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’d rather live in a world without government or currency. Taxes suck, but only insofar as it legitimizes and enables the monopoly of violence
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Have fun in Mad Max might makes right land.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Currency is a tool of authoritarian governments to extract labor via the threat of poverty and state sanctioned violence.
Taxes are a means of legitimizing that violence by recharacterizing an extortionary rent as interpersonal debts, and the violence of collections as just compensation
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Taxes are not theft. They are contributing to the group that shares resources like water and services like roads. These are not naturally forming, they are planned and maintained by people doing a job who need to be compensated.
The problem with taxes is who is taxed. If only a few hundred families control a majority of the wealth, why are you paying taxes? They need to be taxed back down to the quality of life that we live.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m pleased that you can conceptually see this “possibility”, for lack of a better word. It speaks of creativity and imagination.
That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution, is needlessly below your abilities and shows mental rigidity or tunnel vision.
Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot. Just because a carrot CAN be used to stab through someone’s eye and pierce their brain, killing them, doesn’t mean that is what carrots are for, or how public policy should treat carrots.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I like it when daddy america dominates me by forcing me to pay taxes like the dirty little slut I am.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Capitalism is not cool, taxes are thus not cool.
Directly working to make your local community better is cool. Be the guy who comes over and helps you cook a meal with your other friends which you enjoy together.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but can I be the guy who supplies industrial amounts of chlorine, alum, sodium hypochlorite, lime, ferric chloride, sodium hydroxide, activated carbon, polyphosphates, hydrogen peroxide, and ozone for disinfection for my local water treatment plant? Can you spare the steel and engineering brother? I’m so thirsty.
I also have to take a dump. Can I give it to you?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Socialism is just the highest tier plan on Taxes+
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shut up nerd