I mind if my taxes don't go to it!

I don’t mind if a homeless person spends money on things other than the bare essentials.

Also: I'd rather pay the government for healthcare than pay an insurance company, who then pays the doctors.

Or feeding the homeless and housing the hungry.

What I DON’T want my tax money going to is rich people and corporations why don’t fucking need it.

I don’t mind if my taxes go to funding people who want to doss around making weird art, impractical furniture and/or shit music all day

I'd prefer it quite frankly above everything else.

Question why there are any hungry and homeless.

Hell, I don't mind if my taxes destroy the housing market entirely. A housing market should not even exist until everyone has a house.

I dont care if there are lazy unmotivated people getting food and housing with my taxes.

There's a bit of a capitalist propaganda over here (even if unintentional). The underpriviledge class in many ways exists because of wealth inequality. And statement like this normalizes putting the burden of the underpriviledge class back on to the working class (this underpriviledged class is often also part of the working class). This will further create wealth inequality.

So yes, we should support underpriviledged class but we should also understand the bigger picture and demand that these taxes should come from the owning class either through wealth tax or by increasing the minimum wage etc.

Shut up tankie!!! /s

I like that in the original painting he's the one freak in the audience who doesn't want to fund public schools.

But if we help one group, other people in need might want help too. /s

Thats exactly where I want my taxes to go.

I'm super concerned they'll be used to kill kids for being brown or murder me for being queer or fund cops who will hold the train doors open at every single station harassing passengers to the point there's a disclaimer on arrival times now.

If I thought they might get used to feed and house and educate and doctor people, even if it wasn't super efficient; I might even pay them. Hell I'd probably pay extra. Try to work for the government or something. If that's what the government did.

Anyway I'm still an illegalist.

Same. I’d rather my taxes help people survive than disappear into waste and excuses.

Woah why are you being so political!!!!!

Even if it does, I will still occasionally give them a little bit extra when the time and opportunity comes.

I'm trying to figure out what else my taxes should be spent on. Maybe schools, infrastructure, and elder care?

My coworker does ... he said the poor make more money than me or him and if we quit our jobs we'd be making just as much. I mean, we're in tech, I highly doubt the "poor" are as "rich" as he thinks. I had to tell him that I'm not a DOGE/Musk fan even though we live in Canada ... I said I'm very much a progressive. However, I asked him (since I don't have any kids and he does) if he'd like to cut me a check for all the tax dollars I've lost due to educating his children ...

I'd gladly pay more to have everyone be able to eat and sleep comfortably.

If we got rid of the extra 50% profit all these companies charge us, we could easily pay for all the things we need and more.

I have no problem paying more to help people, but we are paying more to hurt people now and it doesn't make sense.

Nerd communist / MMT economics time:

Your taxes don't pay for anything actually. States can create arbitrary amounts of currency (USD in the USA, GBP in the UK, Yen in Japan...), they don't need your taxes to pay for anything.

Taxes have several purposes, the main ones being:

1. Forcing people to use the state's currency by forcing taxes in that currency. Without dollars to pay your taxes denominated in dollars, you go to jail, so the currency you definitely need are dollars

2. Removing money from certain sectors or people to reduce inequality. Taxing the richest businesses and companies can lead to decreases in inequality and to a more level playing ground.

3. Removing money from the private sector economy altogether. Too much money in the private sector can, in some circumstances, lead to inflationary tendencies in market economies or to shortages in planned economies (though the relationship is more complicated than neoliberals want you to believe)

4. Disincentivizing certain behaviours. Easy example is a sugar or alcohol tax.

The state can invest arbitrarily big amounts of money feeding the hungry or housing the houseless without the need for taxing this money first. The relationship between state deficit and inflation is not straightforward, and in fact there's no serious empirical evidence suggesting that, in developed economies, deficit is a good predictor of inflation. Inflationary episodes mostly can be explained through supply shocks, more easily than through state deficit (where deficit means the state pouring more money into the economy than it pulls out through taxes).

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Fucking Commie! /s