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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•7 months agoYes if you change words in a sentence you can make sentences mean different things. That is indeed how words work.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•7 months agoIt isn’t at all, though, unless you change the words until the topic is unrecognizable. Paying taxes so the poor can have things and “talk about fossil fuels” are entirely different things.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•7 months agoYes it literally is, sometimes. If I give sales tax breaks on healthy food, guess who that ultimately also helps? If I subsidize apartments so people can afford a homes guess who that ultimately also helps? If I just straight up hand poor people money, guess who that ultimately helps? People become billionaires because they run large companies. Large companies make things people want.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-27 months agoThat’s what this comment thread is about. Take a nap and reread it. Seems more like a criticism of billionaires If you don’t like billionaires, tax them.
Yes if you change words in a sentence you can make sentences mean different things. That is indeed how words work.
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It isn’t at all, though, unless you change the words until the topic is unrecognizable.
Paying taxes so the poor can have things and “talk about fossil fuels” are entirely different things.
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Yes it literally is, sometimes.
If I give sales tax breaks on healthy food, guess who that ultimately also helps?
If I subsidize apartments so people can afford a homes guess who that ultimately also helps?
If I just straight up hand poor people money, guess who that ultimately helps?
People become billionaires because they run large companies. Large companies make things people want.
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That’s what this comment thread is about. Take a nap and reread it.
If you don’t like billionaires, tax them.