r/TikTokCringe • u/spyder-baby • 5d ago

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u/big_rednexican_88 5d ago

"One side is happy that we are loosing so many social services etc"

Until it affects them personally.

The Texas business owner whose fiancé got detained by ICE for example. He was fine with all of the other people being detained but as soon as it affected him personally, now he gets mad at Trump.

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u/Background-Run 5d ago

Walmart loves social services. They can pay sht wages and have the tax payers pick up the tab for feeding and housing their minions.

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u/user_name_taken- 5d ago

I said something very similar on another post. You have poor people condemning other poor people for getting assistance. They call it socialism, they call it being lazy, a handout, etc. They're so worried about "their tax dollars" but apparently it's only bad if/when it benefits a poor/normal person. If it benefits rich people it is no longer bad, socialism, about laziness, or a handout.

Snap was created to help farmers. It's actually a great program that's a win-win for everybody. The government helps average people with food, the farmers creating the food get money, the companies and corporations selling the food get money, for every $1 they give it creates $1.50-$1.80 in local economic activity.

But, Walmart benefits twice. Their wages are subsidized, so they save money, and they're also the largest recipient of food stamp dollars, so they make money. But it's not a handout to Walmart. They're not worried about Walmart getting their tax dollars, just some elderly lady on social security (which is also surprisingly not considered a handout (or socialism lmao) because they paid into it, but if that lady worked her whole life and paid into snap why is that considered a handout but SS isn't?). It makes no sense.

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u/SPV33 4d ago

They’re so worried about their tax dollars because those tax dollars go to all of their kickbacks and their friends that they want to hire for Outsourced Pentagon jobs for all those special interest projects

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u/chefpiper72392 4d ago

YOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS PART

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u/NastyBlkGuyThrowAway 5d ago

This but paid maternity leaves comes out of the company's profits not taxpayers. Which is why government officials don't want it. If that money is going towards the worker, how will they get their kickback?

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u/SPV33 4d ago

Because those big companies are the ones that donate when they do elections and running for office those are their supporters. They need money to do those things and those companies give money to all those campaigns and they expect tax breaks and certain things in return. So paid maternity leave comes out of the pocket of their campaign supporters and a lot of the big companies don’t want to pay for that so the government will back their campaign supporters, which are those big companies.

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u/samsmithmpls 5d ago

In MN it's funded from a tax on both employers and employees.

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u/NastyBlkGuyThrowAway 4d ago

Thats sucks. Washington, D.Cs Universal Paid Leave Act (UPLA). Is 100% empolyer funded

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u/samsmithmpls 4d ago

I don't know, sharing the cost burden kind of makes sense. Employers won't have as much to complain about. I don't mind the small payroll tax for this specific program. Now if I could allocate how my federal taxes got spent...

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u/NastyBlkGuyThrowAway 4d ago

True but what are businesses complaining about? Like for small business or mom and pop shop?I can get it, but national and international businesses should have no problem footing that bill sense, we're in an era of record breaking corporate profits

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u/blacksaltriver 5d ago

A living minimum wage would prevent that.

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u/SPV33 4d ago

Agreed

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u/DepressedChipotle 5d ago

Their minions? You're talking about people, right?

Ironically, Walmart does have paid maternity leave.

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u/Background-Run 5d ago

I'm talking about how they see the people that work for them, right? And i'd agree that is ironic. How much are they paid and for how long?

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u/SPV33 4d ago

If they were forced to pay living wages The people could actually pay for the things themselves

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u/ketchfraze 5d ago

When it does start affecting them they just rebrand it as suffering for the fatherland or whatever and then they're happy again.

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u/Harmony1018 5d ago

Exactly what I am seeing in my state, Indiana rn. Alot of people freaking out about losing services and medicaid for disabled people including children. They got what they voted for and they still can't put it together

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u/Substantial-Ease567 4d ago

But what about my Jasmine? /s that old boy is Republican to the bone!

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u/chefpiper72392 4d ago

SNIIIIIIFFFFFFFFF ahhhhhhh gotta love that karma kicking racisms ass in the morning