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slowin an hour ago

Your tax dollars go to all kinds of things far worse than helping people survive. The Protestant work ethic cannot die soon enough. Never once have I cared if someone is "lazy". A rich person may work very hard exploiting others, that's far worse than not working at all.

I feel like even a lot of atheists get trapped in this Protestant mindset because we've been raised in this environment (like a fish trying to detect water), but if you think it through you'll see it doesn't actually make sense. Especially under capitalism.

loeg 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

Something like 90% of my tax dollars go to social security net programs.

ChrisMarshallNY 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not 90%[0].

Social Security is kind of a "zero-sum gain," if you believe people, because we are supposedly being paid back what we spent a lifetime, having withdrawn from our wages.

[0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

slowin 21 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Not if you're in the US. Social security is ~22% https://govbase.com/blog/where-your-tax-dollars-go