• Bosht@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What’s especially fucking dumb is the argument of ‘hurr money out of your pocket’. That shit goes right out the god damned window the second you look at where our taxes go i.e. the budget. Of what we overall pay education is laughably low.

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      9 hours ago

      Por when you think about it for more than one second. You went to school. If it wasn’t paid out of taxes it would have had (not a native English speaker, imnot sure if have had is right) to be paid LITERALLY out of your own pocket

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        5 hours ago

        its so fucking stupid

        anti-tax crazies must think schools and roads are natural phenomenon, and governments made up taxes because fuck you

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          4 hours ago

          If you ever want to be angry at the internet download a nostr client. 70% of posts are about bitcoin so you have to block those. After that filter a huge percentage are anti-taxxers, homophones and pro trump. That’s why I left it

      • Bosht@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, you have it correct. If taxes don’t pay for it, you pay for it directly.

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      10 hours ago

      the military industrial complex gobbling up a sizable chunk of your tax dollars: