• neptune@dmv.social
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s just as much that it’s good stamps buying the junk food. The point is he’s mad poor people are making a poor choice. I don’t really see any sympathy for the fudge round eater.

    “Well, God, if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds, taxes ought not to pay for our bags of fudge rounds.”

    The implication is that if to pay for your own food, be as fat as you can, but if you are poor you better act how other people think you should act.

    • jacaw@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      The point seems to be less that poor people are making a poor choice, and more that his money is being used to facilitate that poor choice.

      People often have the idea that “it’s my money being taxed, why shouldn’t I have a say?” And I can at least sympathize with that.

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        People often have the idea that “it’s my money being taxed, why shouldn’t I have a say?”

        Then why isn’t he complaining about the U.S. military-industrial complex rather than what a tiny percentage of the tax dollar is spent on?

        It seems to me that paying for killing brown people is a lot worse than paying for fudge rounds for fat Americans.