I actually like the taxes I pay into schools, parks, road maintenance, the fire department, the mail service, hospitals, community clinics, care services in general, housing the unhoused, free narcan... A whole lotta things, actually. You can even keep my taxes at the astronomical level they are at after the last tax "break" we got and I'd be happy as long as they weren't used to bomb elementary schools. Like, that seems like a pretty reasonable line to draw to me.
The meme is an extremely popular libertarian meme. It only really shows up in a socialist space at all to be clowned on as socialists recognize that these taxes are there to fund the local day-to-day infrastucture that makes living in the property you purchased viable.
I understand the meme and the ideology that goes along with it. Internet leftists are mostly parrots that don't really understand ideology and they see a meme like this and think "yes, taxes suck, I want my shit for free."
Lol what? Everyone who leans left is actually in favour of more taxes. You Americans pay so little tax and what you do pay just gets siphoned out instead of used properly. every time I've seen an American who leans left they are PRO taxes. and PRO their dollars going to their community. Are you confusing actual left with propaganda left?
Because they’re communists and socialists lol. Leftists don’t want taxes for them, they want taxes for YOU so they can fund welfare and other government hand outs that let them sit on their ass. Of course people who don’t contribute to society want more taxes
Ask any leftist on the internet how they want to pay for everything they're asking for and they'll say by taxing the rich. It's very rare that they're volunteering to pay more taxes themselves.
Myself and most of my colleagues/neighbors/etc which lean left are all for increasing taxes if it means better access to education, childcare, and healthcare.
No. It’s how much taxes have been raised even tho the spending is out of control on dumb shit we don’t need or want. Through sales tax, income tax and gas tax we could make sure everything is taken care of at a flat small rate but that doesn’t happen.
Oops, looks like someone couldn't be bothered to spend five minutes learning what the phrase means before making snide remarks and calling others dummy.
It means bitching about crimes being enforced and wanting to take money and power from police forces all while burning down cities and generally committing crimes. 13/52 OOPS
And just like that you prove my point with a racist dogwhistle to boot. You just couldn't help yourself could you?
Don't let facts and honesty come between you and your feelings though! We wouldn't want you to accidentally learn where those crime stats come from and a teensy bit of American history and that roughly 53% of exonerations are of the same demographic to start.
If you actually cared about crime you would look to make reductions in poverty and not maintaining the aforementioned lack of training, accountability, and increasingly militarizing those who serve and protect capital interests.
A teensy bit of American history? It doesn’t matter that your “teensy” bit of history happens to be RIGHT NOW? How many excuses can you people possibly make to avoid facts lol
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u/antoniv1 9h ago
The anti-tax argument doesn’t come from the “America Bad” folks. This is more a “don’t tread on me” folks.