Attached: 1 image 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.🤡"
Also, if rich people are using the services, they are invested in the quality of those services
@maxleibman Except based on sociological and economical research we do know that there is no such thing as “underserving poor”, as any financial situation is almost always predetermined by structure, capital and conditions you are born into.
At the same time, it is very clear that there *is* such a thing as undeserving rich, meaning people whose input, labour and own contributions would never lead to privileges they can enjoy daily.
This is a deeply false and incorrect symmetry.
@ghostrunner That means testing is possible doesn’t mean it isn’t often carrying water for the right when you support it.
Do you believe in free school lunches, or do you believe in means testing? Do you believe in universal healthcare, or do you believe in means testing?
Dividing up the country into who is worthy of being taken care of or not is the conservatives’ game, and you’re playing it even when who you’re trying to mark “unworthy” are the rich (or their children).
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