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by fastball 1828 days ago
> Why does this question only ever seem to come up when we're talking about things that raise quality of life for the poor?

Because in general people like paying for things that are useful to them and don't like paying for things that aren't. The poor don't pay much in the way of taxes, so things that are only used by the poor are of course less likely to get funded.
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shaggyfrog 1828 days ago
The poor pay a disproportionate amount of taxes for what they get back. They certainly pay more than the billionaire class does. Perhaps the lack of funding has to do with power structures more than some subjective measure of utility.
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fastball 1828 days ago
> The poor pay a disproportionate amount of taxes for what they get back

How are you measuring this?

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