Since 2008 I feel that’s all we’ve had. Cuts, austerity, and an overall decrease in public service quality and availability.
Why the fuck are we even paying taxes?
The money keeps getting funneled into private interests through corporate subsidies supposedly to help improve the economy. But these companies don’t pay back their fair share and keep all the profits.
As a millennial, I’m so sick and tired of this shit. I’ve witnessed our society collapse since the 80’s with this neo-liberal reaganomics BS. It’s a failed experiment, but the people who benefited the most from it own the media that convinced the population that it’s still the best system.
We need to do like the French and go on a general strike and start asking for our due. We deserve better goddammit!
I’m gonna guess your postal starts with a T, K, or S.
If so, you will have seen a really rough go after Mr Harper trashed a bunch of long-running programmes for short-term gain, and sold a lot of land rights to foreign interests. It was really bad Reaganomics.
Since then you will have seen a revolving door of similar leaders, inexplicably voted in despite a history of disastrous resource management.
I’m thankful that our federal leadership went from Absolute Worst Idea to Second Worst about a decade back. It’s been rough, but our position through COVID was nowhere near as bad as it could have been.
Right now we’re dealing with a real shortage of doctors, as many of them left due to harassment during COVID, and replacing them will take a decade or more. There’s nothing we can do but suffer it.
But I agree we’re not using our tax money enough on services. We’re rebuilding infrastructure neglected for a while after maintenance that was rejected from so many bills. Our staffing is very low, and in trades important to keeping things running optimally. This downsizing scheme won’t help. If we’re going to rebuild things and repair our infrastructure, we need more people – to add now and to maintain now and after.
But right now, we don’t have a better option. We have a worse one, and let’s avoid that. But let’s get that better option in place before we challenge the status quo.
I don’t get the postal code reference.
We are paying taxes still because the rich need to pay less of them
I’m not sure I understand the meaning of your comment. Can you elaborate? Do you mean they need to pay less because that’s what they say they need or what they want?
I’m being sarcastic 😅. That’s what they want.
Got it! Thanks. It’s hard sometimes to understand what message someone’s trying to convey only with text. There should be more exclamation marks to better define things like sarcasm.
100%, if it’s not obvious sarcasm is really hard to pick up over text.
