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We so often talk about whether we should raise or lower taxes but we have to talk about transparency and how we ALLOCATE taxes We have more than enough money NOW to solve a lot of our problems, but the tax dollars don’t go to benefiting us
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Anonymous 20h

In an ideal world, I would be more than happy to pay my taxes as long as I saw it actually benefit me and my community around me

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Anonymous 20h

But.. if we help ourselves, how will we send money to Israel?

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Anonymous 19h

This is perhaps one of the smartest, most solution focused, posts I’ve seen in US Politics in weeks. Genuinely. Bravo OP. Disagree on paying more taxes comment but you do you.

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Anonymous 5h

Where do you think we can cut?

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Anonymous 20h

We collect $5.6 trillion in federal tax revenue annually. $2 trillion goes to Medicare/Medicaid. $1.7 trillion goes to social security. $1.1 trillion to pay interest on the debt. $0.65 trillion on income security. $0.3 trillion to pensions for federal employees. That already exceeds annual revenue without even factoring in defense or many other important programs. Which of these would you cut to pay for your preferred modes of spending?

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Anonymous 15h

*we* don’t need to pay more, the ultra wealthy do. The ultra rich used to pay like 70% income tax and now they defacto pay like 0%. Yes there needs to be reallocation and transparency but taxes on the wealthy are legitimately artificiality low/lower than they’ve been basically ever in our history and it’s causing a massive deficit .

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

Lmfao exactly 😭🙏

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

Benjamin Netanyahu needs my tax dollars

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

He’s literally starving rn, he hasn’t consumed enough souls 💔

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

Let’s start with the near 4 billion we send to Israel. We could give middle schoolers free lunch

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

Other things we could do- give teachers a raise. Fund national parks. Make more highschools/fund highschool education

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

Four billion doesn’t move the needle. We’d still be spending $1.8 trillion more than we take in.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 18h

I don’t wanna pay more either. We pay enough now to cover a lot of these problems is what I’m getting at, we have the money we just don’t use it responsible

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 18h

For the things I specify said? Cause all of that was doable with the money we send to Israel

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 15h

The top marginal rate has very little impact on revenues. The cause of our deficit is spending.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

True. Got any additional brainstormed solutions? There was tremendous push back on DOGE… not that effective pushback, but there was pushback.

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