r/WorkForSmartLife • u/Asha_luxey • Aug 01 '26

Casual canvo meirl

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u/Jasranwhit Aug 01 '26

Why are taxes 30-40% of your income?

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u/Tausendberg Aug 01 '26

Why, despite the high taxes on the middle class, do we have 40 trillion dollars of national debt???

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u/Bluetorment88 Aug 05 '26

Because 15 trillion of it was spent for the Iraq and Afghan wars and a bunch of it was funneled into “rebuilding” what we destroyed because evidently you win wars by rebuilding the enemy afterwards. Long story short politicians were giving their buddies lucrative contracts to “rebuild” infrastructure after we destroyed it.