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1 year agoDon’t worry I like you.
Don’t worry I like you.
It should be much more. A dollar a gallon tax.
Whenever I see an ad telling me how my life could be better if I just bought the next widget, I think of a line from the princess bride:
“Life IS pain. Anybody who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.”
Likewise. When RIF died, so did my reddit habit. Lemmy has filled the void nicely, and better every day
Not once.
I was banned from fark many years ago, I forget why.
Someone smarter than me once said, “if your using a service, and it seems free, then YOU are the product being bought and sold”
I don’t think this is always true, but it usually is.
In my dreams, we have a flat tax of 30% over all income beyond 40k per year.
And wouldn’t it be neat if, on the tax return form, there was question:
Where would you like your tax dollars to go: • education • military • foreign aid • welfare programs • don’t care, equally distributed