We gotta take care of our own! No no not like that!
Unless of course they voted for people who don’t think that way. I don’t want to help anyone not willing to help someone else.
“I don’t mind” is far too passive.
I want my taxes to benefit the people on the streets far, far more than the wealthy.
“But what about the tax subsidies for billionaires? Won’t someone think of the billionaires for once?”
Billionaires are hungry for power and spend so much time in private jets and on yachts, they’re practically never home.
If you house the homeless they are no longer homeless so you can’t house them so they become homeless and then you need to house them and then they are no longer homeless so you can’t house them and then they become….
Sorry, got in a little loop there. Point being, taking care of people is ok. That’s what money is for. Even after the acute need has passed.
Every single study shows that it is economically cheaper to house the homeless. You literally save money. Less costs needed for policing, health care, social services and all that stuff.
Ah! But! Then you create a more functional society with less inequality and greater overall stability! An economy less prone to outlandish bubbles the wealthy can exploit to get even wealthier! Even positive trends in medical outcomes for the population at large!
Plus all those poor cops you’ve put out of a job! Those are good union jobs, man!
So there are trade-offs!
But without the threat of homelessness nobody will work for me for what I want to pay them with how I want to treat them!
I do mind, actually. In that I specifically want my taxes to go to that rather than going to more bombs for genociding Palestinians.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Okay what about a diversity initiative to fight antisemitism (in in the brains of young children and structurally in hospitals)?
Structurally in hospitals? I don’t see what hospitals have to do with anti semitism
Well, the structures themselves are clearly hamas, all hospitals. Everywhere. So they must be destroyed. Or are you an antisemite?
Yeah, it sucks to survive… stuff. Know how you’re falling apart; a shell of your former self; due to the actions of some random halfwit. Then to face inevitable homelessness and war for continued survival from the same society that enabled the halfwit…
Nice to see some people care.
I’d much much rather my taxes go to taking care of people than to cruelty.
In fact, I insist.
The fact that people would rather see their taxes bomb a brown person’s house instead of building 10 is sickening.
It’s somehow simultaneously terrible economic management and terrible ethical management. There’s just no upside to anyone but the Military Industrial Complex which funds the politicians. I really wish more people could understand that.
I deeply care. I’m pissed when my taxes don’t do that. And I don’t mind if some people who don’t necessarily need it slip through.
It may be difficult to love my countryfolk right now, and I’m not the most pro humanity I’ve ever been lately, but right is right and wrong is wrong. Letting people starve when you can feed them is wrong. Also social services reduce social problems like crime far better than aggressive policing.
Also this is literally what “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country” was about. That those with means have a civic duty to pay taxes that go to welfare and social programs rather than bitching and moaning about how their taxes disproportionately help people poorer than them.
Well said, I feel the exact same way.
I don’t want people to go hungry or be homeless because one day I could be hungry or homeless through no fault of my own.
I’m probably paraphrasing someone famous but the quality of a society is measured by the way it treats the vulnerable.
Goshdarn bleeding heart libruls!
Some people would feed 99 people who don’t need it if it meant feeding 1 person who did. Other people would refuse to feed 99 people who need it if it also means feeding 1 person who doesn’t.
Perfection being the enemy of good. But in reality, it isn’t about the lack of perfection, it’s about selfishness.
We call that second group republican.
I do mind if they’re spent subsidizing Walmart’s shit paay
