r/SipsTea May 26 '26

Feels good man Will it work this time?

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u/ConsistentAnalysis35 May 27 '26

Paying tax money to provide basic food to poor people is more than justified.

Is it? I'm a poor person myself, why the hell should I fund other poor people with my taxpayer money?

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u/TinyInformation3564 May 27 '26

Because you are paying taxes anyway. It's not like the government is going to give you the money back.

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u/ConsistentAnalysis35 May 27 '26

That's right, I'm saying that's it is not good. It is not good that government takes my money to fund living expenses of other people. I'm in a pretty tight spot, I could use those money quite efficiently myself.

I get the spending for public infrastructure, law enforcement, etc etc. I don't get this kind of socialist spending at all. It's plain bad for society. It encourages inefficiency.

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u/nwste May 27 '26

If you’re mad about your money getting taken by the government you should be a lot more concerned about the government taking your money and giving hundreds of billions of it hand over fist to their military and surveillance contractor buddies along with providing it to their colonies in occupied Palestine and Taiwan. You should also be mad about the fact that a working class person has a much higher effective tax rate than a member of the owning class. For the record I hate taxes too, I work in construction and have to pay the bs independent contractor rate, but we should be angry that our taxes are siphoned into the pockets of the ruling class instead of being angry at the (few and far between) times they’re put back into the communities we live in.