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93 Year Old Woman Arrested for Resisting Eviction (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is actually an older news story, and it does appear as though she recovered from this before her death.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14389544

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

maybe get people to jointly hate the government, and how aggressively they overstep on our rights.

The Nine Scariest Words In The English Language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".

~ Ronald Raygun

We just passed a funding bill for three different countries, two of which are actively at war. There’s absolutely the possibility that we can do this but for basic economic shit.

We passed a Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to the tune of $1.2T in federal spending less than three years ago. But the money is primarily focused on propping up private businesses friendly to the goals of the current administration.

Everybody hates tax

If you want to live in a country that doesn't have any taxes, try North Korea. 😆

But the preponderance of wealth makes the tax burden very uneven. We also spend absurd amounts on a military that's proven itself ineffectual and unreliable and a transportation system that's expensive and wasteful. This while draining money away from education, health care, and pensions. We've practically zeroed out our spending on public housing.

Folks don't mind kicking in to make their communities grow. But I'm living on a street that hasn't been repaved in over 10 years, using utilities that haven't been upgraded in at least 20, and I'm being told my property taxes are going up because my house's market rate keeps climbing. Where is my money going? That's the thing that annoys me more than anything.

I’ve proposed moving income tax from the individual to the company

Sure, fine, cool. But where will it go? To my local school system? To some border prison for migrants? To the newest payload of a bomb detonated over Rafa?