• Suavevillain@lemmy.world
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    I had so many people try to tell me why free lunch for children is bad and it never came down to anything but I don’t like paying for other people’s kids.

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      Theres a neighbor that doesnt want to add more ambulances only cause they dont want to pay more taxes. Like dude, we have 4 ambulances for 100,000 people.

      Some people just dont care, even when they know they’ll benefit from it, too.

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      I believe part of free lunch was pushed by Eisenhower, who didn’t want malnourished troops. Odd for the patriotic to not see this any more.

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        Because poor desperate people is easier to convince to fight petty oil wars. They learn you can only push to far with conscriptions before people start rebeling.

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      Which is extra hilarious when you realize all we have to do is start actually charging wealthy people taxes and regular people wouldn’t have to pay for anything

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        Raise the standard deduction and poverty line to 100k. Set income tax at a flat 10%.

        Also, the richest person every year has 50% of their net worth redistributed, and we build a statue in their honor.