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

submitted 8 months ago by alphanerd4 to c/aboringdystopia

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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 8 months ago

The Nine Scariest Words In The English Language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.

~ Ronald Raygun

notoriously right wing governmental figure, and actor with no political background*

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.

that's a governmental problem, and also a corpo influence in government problem. I don't know what you want me to do about it. A lot of that funding went to critical infrastructure, roads, water utility, electric utility, internet, etc. A lot of those could be passing through private hands, but that's just the state of the market.

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

i mean yeah, you could also just not exist. That's also a solution to taxes, great blanket statement there.

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.

i mean yeah, that would have been why i proposed pushing it onto corpos, They control most of the money flow anyway.

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 mean yeah, that's fair. That's certainly a valid complaint, but don't come swining at me, go swinging at your local representatives.

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?

it's the exact same, except that you don't fucking file it. Because the entity you work for does now. It's not like companies control where their taxes go, unless they commit tax fraud, which is a big no no.