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minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoYou’d think those would be two separate amendments anyhow, but not in US politics. Instead you get things like “vote yes to increase taxes on the wealthy and also start killing kittens”
minus-squareDanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoAnd they’d call it the “Feeding American Children Act” or some bullshit despite being about neither. Although taxing the wealthy would help feed children so maybe this comment doesn’t work.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIf we limit the kitten slaughter to behavioral euthanasia and increase the taxes on the wealthy to a similar level, idk maybe I’d vote for it
You’d think those would be two separate amendments anyhow, but not in US politics.
Instead you get things like “vote yes to increase taxes on the wealthy and also start killing kittens”
And they’d call it the “Feeding American Children Act” or some bullshit despite being about neither.
Although taxing the wealthy would help feed children so maybe this comment doesn’t work.
If we limit the kitten slaughter to behavioral euthanasia and increase the taxes on the wealthy to a similar level, idk maybe I’d vote for it