Post #3741688

2026-07-11 12:40 UTC

Your health insurance premium is tax Your car repayments is tax Your data center electricity surcharge is tax You voted for them to reduce your taxes but all they did was privatise taxes and call them by other names. You pay more now then you ever would under any public system. A vote for tax reduction is a vote for hidden taxes.

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@hakona@im.alstadheim.no 2026-07-11 15:01

@doctormo@floss.social Bit of a stretch to mention car-repayments? Otherwise: agreed. ALSO: Tuitions & child-care.

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@fuzztech@infosec.exchange 2026-07-11 17:29

@doctormo@floss.social In the start of the second Gulf War, when a Marine buddy asked me to contribute to a fund to get Marine vehicles up-armored and update their body armor, my dad was outraged. This was a son of a Marine and someone who, while too young to serve in WWII, could recite every battle and every movement with tremendous detail; the man was a patriot. And his argument was that President Bush came in to office and cut taxes and then went to war ("with the army you have," according to Rumsfeld), and reduced the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet into one begging for loose change. "If you want to cut taxes so much that our boys are driving in thin-skinned Humvees, I am not chipping in what we all should have been levied in the first place." I couldn't argue.

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@vmstan@vmstan.com 2026-07-11 17:58

Car payment is a tax? 🤨

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@fskornia@glammr.us 2026-07-11 19:21

@doctormo@floss.social This is the thing that gets me about complaints against universal healthcare. People think they're going to have to pay more money on top of what they're already paying. No, the contribution they're paying to private healthcare would just switch to the universal healthcare system. It very likely would be close to the same or less.

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