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monero-xmr 2 hours ago

In the US we already give low income people subsidized or free daycare.

The real issue is how the system didn’t support the middle. If you are broke you get tons of support - healthcare (Medicaid), food (SNAP), housing (section 8), and a myriad of subsidized options for everything, from discounted utilities to childcare. But be middle class and get very little, except paying taxes to support the poor to get everything. Huge driver of political division across the West

9x39 an hour ago | parent [-]

Well, they know the middle will work no matter what, so they may as well squeeze them.

SoftTalker an hour ago | parent [-]

George Carlin had a bit on this. Went something like:

The rich people take all of the money, do none of the work and pay none of the taxes.

The middle class does all of the work and pays all of the taxes.

The lower class is there to scare the shit out of the middle class.

He was wrong about the taxes, the rich do pay most of them but in proportion to their wealth it can look like not much.