mekka okereke 1d ago

They pay $34 for burgers. Should their fire department service be free? Opening a new fire department in one of NYC's richest neighborhoods has some of America's pettiest journalists asking silly questions in headlines again.🤡

The article acknowledges the fire department analogy, then blows past it.🤷🏿‍♂️

The solve for "Sometimes when a service like free childcare is available to all, marginalized communities get squeezed out," is "Address that racism."

It's not "Therefore waste incredible amounts of time and money trying to means test something that society should just make available to all.🤡"

Show threadWoozle Hypertwin1d ago

@mekkaokereke The "but then rich people get more of it" argument consistently feels like concern-trolling designed to provide an excuse to clamp down on means-testing, which of course makes the problem worse because rich people always have ways to get around bureaucratic obstacles.

(cf. buying a second house in another school-zone so you don't have to send your kids to the "bad" (underfunded) school.)

Show threadWendroid 🇺🇦1d ago
@woozle @mekkaokereke Espesh since rich people always get more of everything anyway, so wtf? Let it go. 👀
Show threadWoozle Hypertwin1d ago

@wendinoakland

And, like, they should be paying more than enough taxes to cover the costs of their usage of any public service many times over -- how else to make the budget work when we have such extreme inequality? So sure, they should get the benefits of it too.

@mekkaokereke

Show threadWendroid 🇺🇦
@woozle @mekkaokereke Their attitude is always, why should the poors get something they don’t pay for? In truth the lower & working classes pay most of the taxes.
Apr 3 at 10:28pmWeb
Show threadWoozle Hypertwin1d ago

@wendinoakland

I just wanna smack anyone who makes that argument in all seriousness.

Like omg people, do you want a civilization or not???  😡

@mekkaokereke