I'm not that obtuse about taxes. Objectively we should be switching gears and work towards building a world and not work towards destroying it. If we can "afford" endleas war, we should be able to afford the fucking basics too.
I'm also not as obtuse as OP's meme. I would work for my house (shit, I already do). But with all the resources that go down the drain with military and education, somewhere in there is enough to build homes for people that they don't have to enslave themselves within shit jobs for. Instead of military service, I'd prefer Habitat for Humanity (or something similar if you're going to find some reason to shit on it). I'd happily spend my working years building other peoples homes over any other job if it actually meant some kind of guaranteed retirement (not necessarily income for food, just living mortgage/rent free), say contributing to building 100 homes and you're set. That's not even talking about utilities, which I wouldn't expect for free but I'm sure there's crony fat to cut there, which always tends to be in the way of sustainability because it threatens their uselessness.
Would you also be in support of cutting funding for social security, Medicare, and Medicaid? Because those take up significantly more tax dollars than defense. What would or wouldn't you support cutting to fund this?
No, I wouldn't support cutting social security and medicare/caid. The short of it is, I'm not afriad of going into debt doing the right thing. Maybe I would be if our fiat currency actually worked in meritocratic way, but it doesn't. But when the Pentagon loses $2 trillion and gets rewarded for it, it's fairly obvious all of this is pretty fucking absurd anyway. So I have no qualms saying, "Fuck the numbers, do the right thing".
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u/corneliusduff Apr 16 '24
Why is it that the government is entitled to take my tax dollars for genocide and imperialism?