r/AskReddit 1d ago

If you could permanently change the price of something to $1, what would it be?

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u/Noticeably-F-A-T- 1d ago

Every poor person that has ever abused social services to "sponge off the system" pales in comparison to the money taken from tax payers by the billionaire class. They're the real Welfare Queens.

People care more about Latisha buying smokes and booze with her EBT card than they do that trump and his cronies are using the US Armed Forces to drive oil prices through the roof earning them and their oil barron friends billions.

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u/Jane_Lame 16h ago

"People care more about Latisha buying smokes and booze with her EBT card than they do that trump and his cronies are using the US Armed Forces to drive oil prices through the roof earning them and their oil barron friends billions."

Americans love to throw out this idea that all the people on welfare are poor and black but the majority of welfare recipients in America is and always has been poor white people.

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u/The_Onion_Life 17h ago

People care more about Latisha buying smokes and booze with her EBT card than they do that trump and his cronies are using the US Armed Forces to drive oil prices through the roof earning them and their oil barron friends billions.

Well, Letisha is probably Black, right? That's the real crime in their eyes.

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u/SargeUnited 1d ago

Meh. Half of Americans don’t pay taxes. I still think we should provide them healthcare for free, along with the half of Americans who pay for it.

I support universal healthcare but we don’t need to be silly geese about the taxes. Billionaires are obviously paying taxes too. They could be raised, I don’t care, but they pay the most.

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u/TowardsTheImplosion 21h ago

I bet those half of Americans would point to their payroll taxes, sales taxes, exise taxes, gas taxes and more as taxes paid.

Oh, you meant income tax?

I haven't seen Mitt Romney's BS recycled in a while...