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More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints (www.eff.org)
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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

something something tAx MoNeY

Nice fake quote

Idk maybe tax the fucking billionaires? Maybe instead of useless foreign wars spend it on schools? Tax the NFL? I’m just spit balling.

Get out of here with that lazy answer. Saying [paraphrased] "Have someone else pay for it somehow" is the most throwaway answer to any cited problem. If you want to contribute to the conversation looking for a solution, then contribute. What you posted here isn't a useful or meaningful contribution.

I'm not opposed to taxing fucking billionaires, but how are you proposing? Increase on capital gains taxes? Higher taxes on non-resident properties? Wealth tax on unrealized gains? That's a great conversation to have, but its pretty far away from school spending which is what we're talking about here.

I'm not opposed to lowering defense spending, but in the USA you might as well try to boil the ocean than try to reform the Military Industrial Complex today. Short of revolution, that's not happening in our lifetime. If we have revolution, school taxation will be the last of our worries.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I'm glad you asked, here is my proposal.

  1. Execute Elon Musk and nationalize his wealth. This puts the fear into the rest of those scumbags, keep them on their toes.
  2. Time to raise the graduated tax brackets, something like 90% on income above $5 million. I just made up that number but I'm not a policy analyst, just a humble douchebag.
  3. Double the capital gains tax.
  4. 15% on unrealized gains above some threshold.
  5. Incredibly high tax on properties that are not owner occupied, I have a personal vendetta against landlords so fuck em.

At any rate I'm still being more helpful than your "can't afford it" rhetoric.