Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.cacake to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoAm I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent?message-squaremessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1117
arrow-up1117message-squareAm I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent?Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.cacake to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square107fedilink
minus-squarebreadsmasher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·6 months agotell me, how can anyone decide where their taxes go?
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoVoting. It’s not direct, and it’s not simple, but it’s about as good as it gets in any kind of representative democracy.
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·6 months agoDude you CAN decide where your investment dollars go.
minus-squareJumi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 months agoInteresting, even more so since I’m not even American. Which country are you from that you don’t have to pay taxes? Sounds like a real dump since infrastructure won’t build itself for free.
minus-squarefinestnothing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months ago… The consequence of being put in a for-profit slavery prison?
minus-squarescbasteve7@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months ago You don’t know where they live, or what their taxes fund or funded. Assuming they are American (which is what I’m assuming you’re assuming), the other option is prison.
minus-squarescbasteve7@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoOh fuck, I haven’t heard a retort like that since the 11th grade. I wonder why
minus-squareGoodmorningsunshine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months agoYou don’t understand how paying mandatory taxes you don’t dictate and investing voluntarily is different?
minus-squareGoodmorningsunshine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoYou’re just the most adorable little troll! Oh my goodness
minus-squarebungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoso you got a pretty big mouth, how about telling us how you avoid all those taxes?
minus-squarebungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 months agoyes, but I’m not investing in it. Get the difference?
minus-squarebungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 months agoyou‘re conveniently omitting the concentration camps he wants to profit off
minus-squareleftytighty@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agohow are you posting from prison?
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tell me, how can anyone decide where their taxes go?
Voting.
It’s not direct, and it’s not simple, but it’s about as good as it gets in any kind of representative democracy.
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Dude you CAN decide where your investment dollars go.
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In what dreamworld are you living in?
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Interesting, even more so since I’m not even American.
Which country are you from that you don’t have to pay taxes? Sounds like a real dump since infrastructure won’t build itself for free.
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… The consequence of being put in a for-profit slavery prison?
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You don’t know where they live, or what their taxes fund or funded.
Assuming they are American (which is what I’m assuming you’re assuming), the other option is prison.
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Do you have brain worms?
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Oh fuck, I haven’t heard a retort like that since the 11th grade. I wonder why
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You don’t understand how paying mandatory taxes you don’t dictate and investing voluntarily is different?
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You’re just the most adorable little troll! Oh my goodness
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so you got a pretty big mouth, how about telling us how you avoid all those taxes?
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Okey Dokey
yes, but I’m not investing in it. Get the difference?
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you‘re conveniently omitting the concentration camps he wants to profit off
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how are you posting from prison?
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