I want every dollar I paid into the system in the last 20+ years of my work life back if they cancel those programs.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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What you want and what you'll get are two very different things.
In other western countries, the state asks for taxes so it can use them to provide services to its citizen. In my country, states actually lower taxes when they've had too much net income in a year. Because why ask for so much money if you don't actually need it.
In the US, it sounds like taxes are seen as a tribute to the ruling elite, with anything given back to the people seen as evil and undeserved.
It's mostly used to fund the military and it's industry.
And they were intended to only effect the highest 95% of earners. If you make less than 3 million a year up until I want to say like 1954ish you didn't pay tax at all. The ultra wealthy pushed a CD m across the board tax to lower their tax load so they could houses more wealth. Then they convinced you you're poor because Javier is taking the higher paying job you "deserve" not because they're extorting you for all you're worth with shiny baubles sold at 130x their production cost.
Musk has no protection that federally elected officials do. If his fingerprints are on the corpses of the mentally ill in any form including cutting their financial support by calling it "entitlement" I will fucking execute his waddling ass. Full fucking stop. Dead man. Citizens are entitled to a minimum quality of life that isn't shit. Musk isn't even a citizen. He needs to get the fuck out of the public eye before he does something that requires a response. Like murdering the mentally ill like Republicans LOVE to do, which people should have fucking responded over by now. But they just step over their corpses and act put out.
There is no way they Musk as signed his name or signature on anything.
Point of order: Musk is an US citizen with additional citizenships in Canada and South Africa.
Citizenships are rather hard to revoke in the US, and it is generally immoral to leave someone stateless. However, treason is one such way to get ones citizenship revoked.
We should get on that while he still has Canadian and South African citizenships.
I support you.
He's a naturalized citizen.
Guess you don't care about all the people losing their job right now because of him, some will become homeless and die because they got fired. Come on buddy, do something!