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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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You know what does make people happier? Not having dead kids. Taxation pays for healthcare for everyone and we all benefit.
Unless of course you live in the US, where taxes are actually, literally, used to kill children.
The problem isn't taxes. Taxes are great. The problem is oligarchs and corruption.
I’m not sure OP is complaining about taxes themselves, just the way people react to a refund.
The refund means someone overpaid all year and could have had that money throughout the year. And yet many people get excited about a refund as if they’re getting a gift rather than, well, a refund of what they already paid.
In OP’s mother’s case, she was disappointed that she owed more. If she’d managed her withholdings differently, she could have avoided owing and, despite paying the exact same in the end, would probably have been more satisfied with her tax outcome.
And yeah, US here. I wish my tax money was going to better causes. I genuinely want my money to go to improving my community (schools, healthcare, social services). And some does, but even more goes to horrible things.
Eh, plenty of people are happy not vaccinating their kids. Then their kids die for entirely preventable reasons and think they did nothing wrong, and would do it again.
I think part of the reason we're in this mess is poor education. Can't have people push back if they don't know (or don't care) what's happening.
If I were to say taxation is theft I would mean it in the way that the way it is currently being applied to my personal income is analogous to theft. Not the taxation in general is unfair. I think it's a pretty fair claim given that my health insurance which cost $5 a month went up to $400 a month and I just canceled it because I don't have a spare $400 a month laying around.