• weeeeum@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    But if we’ve been paying the same amount of taxes, and our services keep degrading is the best solution to keep shoveling our money into this fire pit?

    I know greater funding will improve many programs, but who says higher taxes will increase funding for the programs in need?

    Ive developed a large amount of apathy due to the mismanagement of tax payers funds and until it’s rebuilt from the ground up I have no reason to trust the system to use my funds in good faith.

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      10 days ago

      Bring critical, even venomously so if government spending is not the same as saying taxes should be reduced/removed, or government programs reduced.

      Put differently: I’m critical of how school lunch money is spent, but I sure as shit don’t want to reduce school lunch funding.

      A common problem is republicans get in office, claim to be draining the swamp, funnel tax finding to their buddy’s private company, get a trust fund for when they retire, then turn around the next election cycle and say the public program is broken. That deserves venom.