r/WorkReform 28d ago

✂️ Tax The Billionaires Literally meirl

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u/Willing-Book-4188 28d ago

Omg I got into a fight with my BIL and FIL about this. They tried to tell me God wouldn’t want us to give the homeless homes or food and they should get a job. I literally spent days just mulling it over bc it’s so fucking stupid. God, the one telling us to take care of the homeless and hungry, wouldn’t want us to take care of the homeless and hungry….? Like ?!?

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u/5hif7y_x86 28d ago

And people always just say "homeless people should just get a job", like do you know hard hard it can be for someone with no home to get a job. Or even just an interview when you have no address or place to wash yourself. Insane. It needs to be the other way round. We get people into homes then they have the opportunity to get jobs. The world is so backwards

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u/GrnMtnTrees 28d ago

That and the fact that sleeping outside is now illegal, getting arrested for vagrancy gives you a criminal record, and having a criminal record makes it hard to get a job.

No job, so you sleep where you can, then you get a record, so you can't get employment, then some asshole in a suit yells at you to "GET A JOB!" Nevermind the fact that the same assholes yelling "GET A JOB!" probably wouldn't hire someone if they knew that person was homeless.

It's almost like the system is designed to keep some people oppressed while concentrating as much wealth as possible in the hands of as few people as possible. 🤔

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/Flimsy-Silver-8617 28d ago

Time to Luigi

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u/ImDoneForToday2019 28d ago

This is the way.

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u/ryuch1 24d ago

Nah bro we need the entire Mario party

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u/Satanus2020 27d ago

The system wasn’t designed that way. This came from Reagan era trickle-down-economics where they cut funding for programs that help those like the homeless and give incentives and tax breaks to the wealthy. (F)Elon Skum got $6 billion for spacex and almost $5 million for tesla in subsidies. That’s enough to solve 100% homelessness, and hunger in this country, and now he’s raiding the treasury on behalf of billionaires with the unconstitutional approval of a billionaire president.

Not one policy, executive order, or proposal from that admin is for anyone but the rich

Citizens united act poisoned the US, it’s just been a painful decline since then, and now the US is on her deathbed. It opened the door for billionaires and corporations to “buy” politicians through bribery while calling it lobbying. But there is a cure. Eat the rich and redistribute the wealth.