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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • If you make the gigantic assumptions that the population doesn’t change, the use of services doesn’t change, the price of services only goes down, and the quality of services doesn’t change, then yeah, your very narrow scenario would result in reduced taxes.

    But taxes going down year over year is a bad thing. Taxation is giving back to the community that enables you to gain so much. Giving less and less means others have to work harder. Selfishness is a key component of every civilization’s fall throughout history. Don’t be a petulant child. Pay your fucking taxes.




  • “Student loans” are now one of the most ubiquitous phrases in politics and it’s synonymous with “a burden you can never escape” so it makes sense that the folks who can use assistance will avoid it. The entire fight about student loans has always been to highlight the cost and make some folks turn away from higher education all together. Education has always been under attack for as long as most of us have been alive and this is another front in the war.

    First they attack public education and exhaust teachers with overwork with underpayment. Now the right wants to attack Academia, the source of science which shows how destructive the current system has become and how it will evolve. Elon will probably entirely axe FAFSA and funding for higher education, with the aim to have their endowments fed by wealthy elite who dictate what makes it onto a syllabus. The right is so fucking exhausting.