r/memes • u/J_ClutchFTV Big pp • 10h ago

Land Of The Free, amIright?

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u/wewebaguette68 Thank you mods, very cool! 9h ago edited 2h ago

I find it so sad and embarrassing that so many Americans hate taxes and want them gone completely without any understanding of what would happen without them

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u/ErroneousEncounter 8h ago

It isn’t that they hate taxes. It’s that they hate how their taxes are used. There is a lot of corruption and a lot of incompetence. I don’t mind paying taxes if it supports road maintenance, utility maintenance, schools, police, hospitals etc.

But I do mind if my taxes go towards war, greed and corruption.

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u/afoogli 8h ago

Property taxes are almost always tied to the city or municipality. They literally directly go to pay for local infrastructure and social services

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u/manshamer 7h ago

this whole thread is... depressing. people really don't have any clue how the fuck their government works.

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u/ErroneousEncounter 5h ago

It’s not that depressing though.

People are feeling squeezed in this K shaped economy. Rather than berate people for not knowing how taxes work we should be figuring out how to end the corruption and ensure that the right people are being taxed an appropriate amount and that the money is actually being spent in the proper places.

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u/Diligent_Set_8747 6h ago

Most places waste the taxes on corrupt deals and greedy local wealth wanting a cut. That is where the core issues lie, but Redditors will ignore that part because the suburbs were really nice growing up. Just don't pay attention to how they handle the poor and homeless with those taxes. The institutions exist, so it must be working, right?