@omgsidewalks For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
-2 Thessalonians 3:10
Joseph Stalin quoted Lenin during the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, declaring: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat."
Yes, Capitalism is to blame.
@JezziiB If you are falling for the "we need to be fighting each other" playbook you have lost the plot.
The enemy is not either of these wage earners, the enemy is the ruling class overlords who want us divided while they acquire more treasure and power at the expense of our freedom.
@BotheredBoy If we would just stop allowing people to steal via Learing centers and other fraud, we could pay for housing, Medicare, high speed rail.
But we actively choose not to.
@PEWilliams_ Maybe grocery stores could start building apartment complexes above their stores. Hannaford Towers has a nice ring to it. Whole Foods Whole Living.
@tonyannett If a town needs $10k from each household, send them a bill, why does it need to be tied to property value?
Divide the costs of services among the residents and businesses.
If the town needs more, pass a new budget.
Do not give towns automatic increases via property taxes.
@davec_NH I switched to starlink after a 3 day outage from my ISP. When I tried to find out why my service is down, the rep just said "It's down because there is an outage in your area".
It's been fantastic, not just fast downloads but very low latency, the same or better than TDS fiber.
Why is the idea of seizing other people's earned wealth so deeply ingrained in Bernie Sanders and his supporters?
I don't understand why he's not a proponent of people earning their own wealth.
Wouldn't it be better to create a government friendly to creating individual wealth?
Businesses and people will move to towns that spend responsibly and have services they want.
I don't object to paying taxes. If it costs $10k in taxes per year per household to live in Smallville, great! I can choose if I want to live there. I can decide if that's a fair price for the services the town provides.
If the town needs to spend more money and give me more services or buy a community pool, or paint colored sidewalks, increase the budget and let people vote on it, don't give them a checkbook that automatically gets bigger every time property gets evaluated because they WILL spend the money.
@averyeseverson Just remember who is to blame for destroying the value of our money when you vote.
Quantitative easing
Cares act
Rescue America act
More quantitative easing
They want to stir up division between generations to keep the heat off their kick the can policies that are killing us.