(August 4, 2020 at 3:52 pm)Mermaid Wrote: I felt the same way. It's nice to get free money and all, but we both kept our jobs and are fine so far.
It is NOT free money. Nothing in life is free.
Taxes pay for everything. Even in our tax code if you make less than a certain amount you are less likely to pay income tax. But the thing is, even the poor pay taxes, every time they buy anything.
There is a stupid myth that taxes are are seperated. In reality, be it a tax on gas, or smokes or food, or property or anything. It is one giant pool, and when one budget gets short congress looks to cut/borrow from other budgets.
Military are paid for by taxes. Police are paid by taxes, fire stations are paid by taxes. But so are Social Security and Medicare. But between someone like Jeff Bezos who is worth 120 billion dollars, and a McDonalds fry cook, whom do you think would get hurt worse by raising taxes?
I don't need a job right now. But I have spent most of my life in low wage jobs. And my mother, while she helped me out, never would have let me drain her. The poor DON'T want free anything. And I am not speaking for myself, but for all those I have worked with and seen struggle. What they want is stability.
Taxes are NOT free. The only argument is what we spend them on. But for anyone to argue the poor don't pay taxes is bullshit. Everything one buys has a tax on it. That means even the poor pay taxes.
