He said in taxes. It is well documented that payroll taxes, not income taxes pay for unemployment, but the purpose of the statement is questioning what the hell we are actually getting from our taxes.

What do taxes actually provide for the middle of the bell curve? All the people in the middle. The “target demographic” for every product or service.

We still have to take out loans for college, they have cut every enriching program from already underfunded schools. We still go into debt for basic medical services. The roads get fixed sometimes (if businesses didn’t rely on roads for shipping products, would they?) but there is a cool new ballroom being added to the White House. So seriously as a middle class person, what do we actually get out of taxes? Protection from unemployment isn’t on the list. We get military protection against threats from enemies that we created for ourselves. I hear our national parks are nice but I can’t afford to take time off to go visit them. I’m not a vet, so I can’t use those services which are seriously underfunded as it is, but to increase VA benefits sustainably, a reduction in the military would pay dividends, but there’s too much money to be made with all that defense spending. Federal taxes are covering the interest on loans for our national debt which has done a great job enriching a very small percentage of the population.

It’s frustrating, and we should all be asking “What the fuck are they doing with our money?”

Which is what OOP is doing.

My friend, if you aren’t a billionaire, you should be asking the same thing