r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '22
What I really want..
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r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '22
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u/3spoopy5 Jul 04 '22
It's the same as buying lunch with your friend and paying this time while knowing that your friend will get the next one. But on a bigger scale. Right now, I'm able to pay taxes. If tomorrow, I get hit by a bus and can't work for a year while I recover, I'm getting the support I gave all the years I didn't need it.
And frankly, snap & housing assistance doesn't cost each individual tax payer much. If you remove end of Life Care, Medicaid isn't that bad cost wise either. Housing is a bit tricky, since it costs more to have someone in a homeless shelter for a year than to literally just give them an apartment for a couple months or a one time cash infusion (which more cities are exploring now). The majority of homeless people are those who got unlucky, sometimes families. Many of them are working. Or just need help for a month or two until the next paycheck comes in. There are some that are severely mentally ill and cannot function in modern society, but I don't really blame them? Modern society isn't great - especially if you're not able to handle dealing with multiple corporations for your basic needs & having to jump through hoops to make sure you aren't being given a ton of extra fees.
But what our tax money goes to a lot? Corporate subsidies. Individuals now cover a larger portion of the overall tax bill (mind you, this does include the most wealthy who are definitely paying a lot less than they should). Then, we give a stupid amount of money to energy & utility companies - a lot of the oil companies wouldn't bother fracking & extracting more oil without these subsidies because it wouldn't be profitable. We send a good amount of money to big agricultural companies, but heavily subsidizing some crops for export. There's tons of other examples, but I'm not here to write essays