How about instead of asking for donations, the money is just collected through taxes? What a ceazy idea!
this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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Using taxes to pay for things? Crazy!
I want my taxes to go to burying brown child under rubble in Palestine! (ever conservative ever)
And steal this child's opportunity for gumption? The media's opportunity to placate us with a heart warming story? Deprive us this chance to be outrage?
Taxes steal all of this from us!
How in the hell is he going to obtain his own bootstraps if you're paying for everything with our taxes?!?!?
Let them get jobs in the mine! I've been working there since I was eleven and I turned out just fine!!
Excuse me - I need to go move my lifted ram 2500 before the repo man finds it.
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”Children in elementary school should not have debt tied to their name. We have found out that there are high schools that keep seniors from attending prom or walking at graduation if they have stuff like student lunch debt,” Kramer said. “Some families can’t help it. They can’t pay it off.”
In case anyone had any doubts that the cruelty is the point. Stratify children based on their socioeconomic status at the earliest possible opportunity.
In a video shared to his mom’s Facebook, Daken had challenged “friends, family and local businesses to donate what they can to this cause.”
If they’re required to be there by law it’s inhumane to charge them money for food.
Careful now, this is part of the thinking that people [backwardly] use to proselytize for more charter schools, homeschooling, the dissolution of the Department of Education, and a host of other stupid ideas.
They'll see this and say, "yeah, they shouldn't even be required to go to school! so they have to earn a wholesome Christofascist education" or some other nonsense.
Nevertheless, I agree. Food should be a right for everyone.
I’m fine with private schools competing with public services as long as:
- They receive zero public funding
- They require the same (or higher) standards as public education
- Public education spending is not reduced
Education, infrastructure, healthcare, military protection, and mails services are some of the core services taxpayers should be most happy to invest tax dollars in. These services should feel like we’re getting a great deal for our investment. If anyone wants to spend more on private sector businesses, that’s up to them. But not there’s no need to sabotage the publicly funded services.