• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    That’s $2,967.45 a year. I promise you, if you told this guy we were going to start taxing billionaires $3K a year to care for the homeless, he’d say that was a Marxist wealth redistribution plot that would destroy America.

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    How about he go live there instead.

    Also just, beyond the cruelty of it all, imagine being down on your luck and between homes and jobs and now you’re shipped to the other side of the world (where you may face death for your sexual orientation) and now what might have been temporary for you, a rough period of living in your car or on the street before you get back on your feet, is now the rest of your life spent desperately trying to get back home.

    I was housing unstable in college and had to sleep in my car a few times. I took that pain in order to become an engineer rather than dropping out and entering the workforce. A friend took a harder path and was homeless in college off and on, now she’s in law school after years of working as a public servant. When you throw away the homeless you throw away human beings, both those whose value is entirely in that fact (which should be enough) and those who will return to having a home and will contribute to society and the economy.

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    Oh let play this out you Tonedeaf fucker. Everyone who can’t afford to live like you do leaves. You and your rich buddies have no lower class now.

    Which means you have no lower class to serve you.

    Which means you soon starve to death.

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      my dude, hope you can find reliable comfortable safe affordable shelter soon

      stay safe and sane!

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        Right, consider the “We’ll give…” part of the statement. He’s got enough wealth to send every homeless person he see to Uganda with first class tickets, and then give them 8.13 a day for the rest of their lives, and he would never even notice the difference in his wealth. But the “We” in his statement says that he doesn’t want to pay for it, he wants us to pay for it, with our taxes. Since I’m paying for it, I’d much rather have the homeless people get one of the thousands of empty homes here (in the US at least, we have more homes than homeless), medical care, and UBI. That’s what we should be doing with our money instead of lining the pockets of billionaires and bombing elementary schools in Iran.

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        If you consider the US relationship to Uganda, its very possible he’d pay them to function as mercenaries for the repression of Ugandan locals and the extraction of their domestic resources via compulsed and trafficked labor.

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        Gotta charge them back for transit, fuel, productivity time lost and discrepancies in projected profits. Looks like once in Uganda they owe $4.39 per day for ten years at which point they’ll start to look into paying towards that daily $8.13. Unadjusted for inflation of course.