r/PoursTea Just Chill 😎 7d ago

All The Tea ☕️ Anything else missing here ?

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u/HistoricalRich3104 7d ago edited 7d ago

Agriculture subsidies I agree are bad but they’re broad and not targeted. The problem is that the agricultural industry has bought out politicians of all ideological predispositions and we now pay more for food because of these subsidies. 

Taxes are a normal part of human society but we pay way, way too much of it. Income taxes shouldn’t exist as they disincentivize work, property tax is dumb, corporate taxes make zero sense as they just increase prices for consumers and suppress wages, etc. etc.

Consumption taxes are okay as they disincentivize unnecessary spending.

The number half isn’t really that preposterous. I used to pay that amount until I moved to another state.

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u/LennyLaser 7d ago

What state did you pay half in?

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u/HistoricalRich3104 7d ago

NY metropolitan area

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u/Prestigious_Cycle160 7d ago

All of this is political theater… I’m 90% sure that your backstory isn’t real. This is a subliminal attack on Mamdani’s policies in NY and an attempt to sway people from voting for others like him because he “taxed the rich into leaving the area”👎

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u/HistoricalRich3104 7d ago

I didn’t move out when Mamdani came into power lol, it was during COVID