Taxes that disproportionately fall on the poor—the sales tax, for example—are imposed all the time, and never once do you see on cable news "up next, this janitor explains why the sales tax punishes his success"
@matchaladiosa Also— I too stopped shamming non-vegans, it’s not that I don’t care, I think it’s one of those things people have to figure out on their own, we can’t help what we’ve been taught by society sometimes. It’s takes a lot of effort to fight back and be vegan, not everyone can.
@matchaladiosa I’ve been vegan for 5 years, after a while you don’t view meat as food, I used to miss it the first couple years—especially cheese, but now it’s w.e. I accidentally had milk a couple months ago and I could taste the difference, it made me gag, tasted horrid.
cant think of anything more insane than deporting Haitian immigrants living on us soil back to Haiti after a devastating earthquake. but of course this current admin is supposed to be the good guys so they’d never do such a thing
It feels outrageous to me that our credit scoring system is run by three profit-driven companies that are allowed to sell us products that boost the scores they assign us.
The gap between the very rich and everybody else is wider than ever. Today, we have two people with more wealth than the bottom 40% and, incredibly, during the pandemic, billionaires have seen their wealth surge, while workers on the frontlines are paid starvation wages. ENOUGH.
pretty much what everyone’s argument reduces to. i live in la. the housing market here is fucked. why is the argument that i should keep renting or that i should go gentrify somewhere else? will this solve the problems? no. ppl are mad cus lefty w house. that’s it.