• SCB@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It isn’t at all, though, unless you change the words until the topic is unrecognizable.

      Paying taxes so the poor can have things and “talk about fossil fuels” are entirely different things.

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          7 months ago

          Yes it literally is, sometimes.

          If I give sales tax breaks on healthy food, guess who that ultimately also helps?

          If I subsidize apartments so people can afford a homes guess who that ultimately also helps?

          If I just straight up hand poor people money, guess who that ultimately helps?

          People become billionaires because they run large companies. Large companies make things people want.

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            7 months ago

            Yes, sometimes it does but that doesn’t make them the same thing. You are quite dense. My literal point is that you took a comment arguing about not wanting to line Musk’s pockets with taxpayer money for Starlink as being republican in nature. Do you like him or something? I really don’t get why you are trying so hard here.

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                7 months ago

                Sorry, meant Bezos and Kuiper. Hard to get sleep on international flights. Where are they saying they don’t support subsidizing satellite internet entirely? Seems more like a criticism of billionaires wanting the government’s money instead of just doing it themselves or us funding a different company.

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                  7 months ago

                  That’s what this comment thread is about. Take a nap and reread it.

                  Seems more like a criticism of billionaires

                  If you don’t like billionaires, tax them.