It’s impossible to maintain service delivery if the cost of delivering that service and the number of people accessing it both increase, while also reducing tax revenue.
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Taxes are payment for services rendered
They’re not payment for future services, and certainly not benevolent gives from corporations and the wealthy.
Capitalists don’t care that for many people, wages aren’t high enough to sustain a decent lifestyle, one where you don’t have to worry about how you’ll pay your bills or where you next meal will come from. They don’t care that low wages reduces purchasing power of consumers. They don’t care that raising wages would […]
I often hear people claim that their tax dollars shouldn’t go to this or that thing because they will never use it or they think it’s a waste of money.
Specific projects should be judged based on their specific benefits, not benefits they share with hundreds of other projects.
The problem is our society perpetuates an ever-increasing divide between those who have the most and those who have the least.
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Are wildcat strikes actually illegal?
In some of the rhetoric I see online regarding wildcat strikes, I see people referring to them as illegal. I wanted to talk about that usage.
Sometimes there are benefits that can’t be bought. And not all resources must generate a profit.
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One way homophobia hides within us
Homophobia and transphobia area more embedded in us than some of us would be willing to admit. Sure some homophobia and transphobia show up in pretty obvious ways, such if someone uses a slur or pathologizes sexuality or gender (such as calling them a mental illness) or even dismisses them outright by saying they’re not […]
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Union wages aren’t too high
Non-union wages are too low.