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    10 months ago

    where did i state that I said it’s more important. I only stated that ignoring the main group of people that the article is discussing is a pretty dumb fix.

    there are a lot of adjustments a person could make per month due to less income, and housing doesn’t have to be first. if one is spending 1000$ on groceries for a group, but someone barely making it by is making it with less means there’s discrepancy in spending habits with groceries. can dial it down to the rest. Same goes with Children and other choices of spending, but it ultimately goes down to fixing costs because thats whats boning everyone, while the original comment chain was about fixing debt (in a way that doesn’t help everyone, as there are already regions and people who are completely unaffected by income tax), which not exactly everyone who cant afford 500$ month to month is necessarily in.

    Income tax is not a fix, its a band aid that works for some that makes no progress on fixing the actual problem and only kicks it down the road for the discussion to happen again later. You haven’t even discussed what happens when there is no income tax and things get expensive enough then, what are you going to do then? You had all the time to discuss it at the point I mentioned some people already pay no income tax.