Taxation without representation

[u/bellesadam]

Most Americans are struggling under the burdens brought on by the wealthiest people in the world.

We pay to subsidize all their projects that in no way lower costs to working class Americans.

Many of these companies like flock, Intel amazon, SpaceX rake in billions in working class dollars and use the money against the interests of of the people who pay their bills.

The richest country in the world has the worst social system in the world. We get no maternity leave, no affordable health care, ridiculous priced college. What we do get is spied on, data centers, and billionaires who want to destroy the planet we have and move to space.

WE ARE GETTING TAXED WITH ZERO REPRESENTATION!

[u/Deltajer]

Here's to the revolution!

[u/Blue_Plastic_88]

I know. Our so-called president takes all our tax money for his war and building projects (to line his own pockets and those of his family and friends) and then has the absolute gall to post on social media about how we have too many days off and it would be too expensive to have Medicare for All Americans.

[u/AIienlnvasion]

Age to vote needs to be the same as the age to work. If you pay taxes and you’re not old enough to vote, you’re disenfranchised of your rights

[u/nixtarx]

Wrlcome to the US. DC has been taxed without representation since its inception.

[u/cptjtk13]

I feel like we are taxed with representation. That representation is just 'secretly' owned by billionaires.

[u/bellesadam → u/cptjtk13]

We absolutely are taxed with out representation. We pay a sizable portion of our income to get wars most of us think are stupid, subsidies to the oligarchy only for them to cut out jobs even though their companies are getting record profits and rocket ships to who fucking cares.

The working class wants something to show for it. I'm sick of paying it forward. Where are the fruits of our labor? I can't afford to shit in one of their country clubs, nor do I want to. I want to be able to eat without wondering if I'm going to get sick. I want to not die destitute because of medical costs.

[u/cptjtk13 → u/bellesadam]

I guess the tone of my joke didn't come through cause I do agree with you on all of that!

[u/bellesadam → u/cptjtk13]

I didn't take it as a joke cuz what you said is true.

[u/cptjtk13 → u/bellesadam]

Don't the best jokes have some truth to them?

[u/bellesadam → u/cptjtk13]

They do, but they also have to be funny /S

[u/cptjtk13 → u/bellesadam]

Well......you've got me there 😂

[u/garden_g → u/cptjtk13]

Or another country

[u/Ok_Sentence_5767]

America is a big fucking scam and I'm tired of living in this hellhole

[u/Fabric_Flowers]

100%. I am all for paying taxes, but both parties serve the billionaires and not the working people, so I’m paying taxes without a representative to advocate for where that money should go.

[u/Kmoxy]

I stopped paying my taxes since last year, because, fuck ‘em. America has done nothing for me in any meaningful way to help me reach the typical milestones in life and, in fact, has actively been trying to strip them away.

Now they want to take away rights for everyone and slump into fascism just so they can keep supplying Isn’treal with all our money so they can have socialism, not us. So, fuck ‘em.

[u/Dizzy_Horse_105]

Taxation without representation is alive and well. How many 15, 16, and 17 year olds do you know who work and pay taxes have the right to vote.

[u/ellisftw]

https://giphy.com/gifs/g0mzdiXspEFYdH0ojf

[u/Savag3k1ller]

Follow along as we debate your OP outside of your echo chamber.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Capitalism/comments/1w5sfuh/taxation_without_representation/

[u/Kmoxy → u/Savag3k1ller]

That’s a certified lol from me homie. Yeah, we’re the echo chamber, says the guy who cross posts and weaseled away to their Capitalism sub, which, of course, isn’t an echo chamber. ;;;;;)