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What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 139 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How taxes are dealt with in North America. Just send me how much I owe. Don't have me go through a service to figure it out

[–] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

Exactly

[–] raven@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likewise, the IRS already knows everything about me. If I qualify for, say, food stamps, just have the IRS send me the food stamps. Don't make me jump through hoops when I'm already destitute, come on.

This would make tens of thousands of jobs redundant and make many social programs much more efficient.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And save trillions of dollars, especially if we extended this to Medicare for all

But using resources efficiently isn’t the goal, suffering is!

[–] raven@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If Democrats actually wanted to win every election from now until forever, this would do it for them. Imagine worrying how you're going to feed your kids and then the mail arrives "BTW you've qualified for food stamps for the last 18 months, here they are"

But they won't

[–] Washburn@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Materially improving people's lives is authoritarianism sweaty it needs to be balanced against legalizing violence against marginalized people