Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch
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Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.
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The descriptor "free" misleads - this is exactly the type of thing taxes were always meant to pay for.
This I have always hated the "FREE STUFF!" talking point and how the mainstream bought it.
I'm not talking about demanding some middle class guy be forced to buy me an Xbox, but rather I'm asking multiple billionaires start paying just a little more in taxes (instead of ya know.. constant rebates for "cReAtInG JoBs") so that little Timmy doesn't die of untreated pediatric cancer.
It's mad that children could some how not deserve or accumulate debt to eat. It's even more mad that its exactly what happens.
It's also mad that this is also the case for adults. When you turn 18, you shouldn't suddenly lose basic rights (like access to food and shelter), but that's exactly what most capitalists want to happen (and so that's how it works).
Goods with inelastic demand shouldn't be driven by the profit motive. Food, healthcare, housing, etc. We can let luxury goods stay within the private sector for now since people don't need them to survive, and come back to that conversation at a later date.