I’d take that 100% of the time over many of the other things our tax dollars pay for. Plus, it’s just a website with resources for fathers in general, not a whole site dedicated to dad jokes.
You’re not happy your tax dollars funded a 20yr war in Afghanistan that was ultimately lost in less than 2 weeks, and Gulf War 2: Iraqi Boogaloo The Hunt for Nonexistent WMDs?
Someone cited recently how much we were paying a year just for air conditioning in Afghanistan: $20 billion. Meanwhile we’re like “hey, maybe children shouldn’t be starving in school and forced to throw their lunch in the trash at the end of the line if they can’t pay for it, maybe states shouldn’t be sending parents to collections for a $90 kid’s lunch bill” and conservatives: WHO’S GONNA PAY FOR THAT??
That’s the point I’m making. Give me a government that I can see the taxes I pay benefitting myself and the others I share a government with and I won’t mind paying.
War and dad joke websites aren’t my idea of money well spent.
Trivially silly opinions can be countered by trivially silly points. Yes.
You don’t need to be creative every time some idiot repeats themselves. Though I guess it’s futile since they clearly won’t change their minds. So it’s more for anyone reading it who might think the original opinion makes any sense.
“I don’t want to pay taxes if they’re going to be used on stupid shit and bombing people” is not successfully countered with “roads”. Roads are obviously not stupid shit, if my taxes were only paying for stuff like roads I wouldn’t complain. Justify taking my money from me at gunpoint to pay for a dad joke website.
The bottom half of wage earners pay zero federal income tax, and around 90% of federal income taxes are paid by the top 10%.
Most people get more back than they had withheld all year. It’s most likely that these aren’t YOUR tax dollars, and if they are, YOUR contribution is likely microscopic.
I just don’t think taxes should be used to pay for a (likely overpriced) dad joke website man. There’s a perfectly good Lemmy community full of them that I get for free. This dad joke website is emblematic of a larger systemic problem, that most of the money we pay in taxes doesn’t actually benefit us in any tangible or measurable way.
I also don’t want to contribute to bombing innocent people.
I’d take that 100% of the time over many of the other things our tax dollars pay for. Plus, it’s just a website with resources for fathers in general, not a whole site dedicated to dad jokes.
You’re not happy your tax dollars funded a 20yr war in Afghanistan that was ultimately lost in less than 2 weeks, and Gulf War 2: Iraqi Boogaloo The Hunt for Nonexistent WMDs?
Someone cited recently how much we were paying a year just for air conditioning in Afghanistan: $20 billion. Meanwhile we’re like “hey, maybe children shouldn’t be starving in school and forced to throw their lunch in the trash at the end of the line if they can’t pay for it, maybe states shouldn’t be sending parents to collections for a $90 kid’s lunch bill” and conservatives: WHO’S GONNA PAY FOR THAT??
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Fifteen year-old video. Still so relevant.
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You youngsters don’t appreciate the best one, Arms For Hostages!
I’ll take keeping my money over any of it.
I’m very happy to give the government my money if it means improvements to the general population’s well being and improvements to social programs.
That just… Doesn’t happen… So yeah
That’s the point I’m making. Give me a government that I can see the taxes I pay benefitting myself and the others I share a government with and I won’t mind paying.
War and dad joke websites aren’t my idea of money well spent.
I bet you still use roads
I personally don’t use roads much, but I’m pretty sure my food gets to the grocery store that way. So big fan.
Aaaah the old “shout ‘roads’ at them” tactic, I bet there’s a lot of horsepower up there.
Trivially silly opinions can be countered by trivially silly points. Yes.
You don’t need to be creative every time some idiot repeats themselves. Though I guess it’s futile since they clearly won’t change their minds. So it’s more for anyone reading it who might think the original opinion makes any sense.
“I don’t want to pay taxes if they’re going to be used on stupid shit and bombing people” is not successfully countered with “roads”. Roads are obviously not stupid shit, if my taxes were only paying for stuff like roads I wouldn’t complain. Justify taking my money from me at gunpoint to pay for a dad joke website.
I can’t help if you won’t even read the post I originally replied to. He said “any of it”. As in, all the things.
What you said makes sense. That’s not what he said.
I am he.
The bottom half of wage earners pay zero federal income tax, and around 90% of federal income taxes are paid by the top 10%.
Most people get more back than they had withheld all year. It’s most likely that these aren’t YOUR tax dollars, and if they are, YOUR contribution is likely microscopic.
I just don’t think taxes should be used to pay for a (likely overpriced) dad joke website man. There’s a perfectly good Lemmy community full of them that I get for free. This dad joke website is emblematic of a larger systemic problem, that most of the money we pay in taxes doesn’t actually benefit us in any tangible or measurable way.
I also don’t want to contribute to bombing innocent people.