Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

    • prole
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      322 years ago

      No shit. It literally says where the money that pays for it comes from right in the headline.

      • @[email protected]
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        232 years ago

        I think the point of the comment was that in the last few decades the rhetoric has been: “Taxes bad” “Government provides free bus passes to underprivileged people” Always divorcing taxes from their positive effects on society. Maybe they were trying to fight that by directly uniting the fact that the government is just a coordinator, collecting taxes and using it to buy lunches for kids.

        “4% tax on millionaires pays for breakfasts and lunches for all school children” unlike the above example, is a sentence that reminds people that taxes are what provides these many positive social benefits they recieve, not “the government”, not “for free”, and that taxes aren’t always “bad”.

        Or maybe I’m projecting!

      • @rambaroo
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        42 years ago

        Yeah but le redditor needs to show us how much smarts he is.

    • @MostlyBirds
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      142 years ago

      Literally no one thinks it’s literally free.

      • @SMITHandWESSON
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        -12 years ago

        I’d just like to add …

        literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally

        …thank you

    • @[email protected]
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      -12 years ago

      So you’re implying that people regularly make $1,000,000 in annual income by working? Only about 150,000 people in the US make that much. It’s their money.

    • Flying Squid
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      -252 years ago

      Kids don’t pay taxes. It’s a free lunch.

      • @[email protected]
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        162 years ago

        This comment is just an extreme lack of understanding of any tax system there is, which is wild.

        • Flying Squid
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          142 years ago

          Something that is free for one person will necessarily cost money for another. But for the kids, it’s free.

        • @rambaroo
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          2 years ago

          Imagine being this fucking pedantic. This place is legit reddit 2.0 and that’s a bad thing.

        • @odbol
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          22 years ago

          This comment is just an extreme lack of understanding of millionaires

        • @Elivey
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          02 years ago

          For the children and the families of the children, it is free

          I can’t believe you have the upvoted comment.

          • @GroggyGuava
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            42 years ago

            Your first sentence describes your own comment.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 years ago

            Every time you complain, I will post a meme you wouldn’t understand and a comment mocking your boomer ass.