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Yeh, I'm far more concerned with my taxes feeding the obscenely rich and yachting the yachtless

I want my taxes to go to ensuring that everyone, even those who live in poorer areas, have good schools, including colleges and universities, at low or no tuition; good quality well maintained infrastructure, and quality universal healthcare, at low or no cost at the point of service. I also want my tax dollars to go to public sanitation and public safety services, so that everyone can live in clean, safe neighborhoods. I do not want this out of pure altruism, I want all of this for selfish reasons. I know that I am better off when EVERYONE has a clean, well maintained, safe, healthy and educated community to live in. I benefit from that, so I am more than willing to pitch in my fair share for it.

I'm not super wealthy. I worked in tech and was making less than 300k. Not quite "retire super early" money, but still good money! And, frankly, that's enough. I can afford to pay taxes.

Best I can do is bomb homeless people, any remaining is a donation to billionaires. --us government

Better than my taxes going to create more hungry and homeless people.

I've actually seen people yell about "why should my money go to helping someone else!?!? That's socialism!!" When you bring this up to them.

The brainwashing runs deep. You can tell too because you will make the same remark this picture does without yelling or anything like that and they go apeshit raising their voice to the top of their lungs, slamming their fists on the tables. And if they've been drinking boy oh boy they might actually physically assault you its insane.