Shameful situation
Kansas: once again showing how not to run a government. Continuing the Kansas Experiment I see.
And in case you dont scroll down to read this part, I am just going to put it here:
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the bill cut the taxes of “the wealthiest 1% of Kansans by 2.2%”, while it projected that the poorest 20% of Kansans would see “their taxes increase by 1.3%”… almost 70% of Kansas lawmakers, as well as Governor Brownback and his wife, benefited personally from the tax cuts through business or property that they owned, which being non-wage income, was exempt from taxes under the 2012 law.
Non-wage income is what’s explicitly exempt from taxes. What bigger “fuck you” to the working class can you even imagine?
And yet they keep managing to convince the working class to vote for them.
because everyone knows that you won’t get anywhere with just wages
Admitting your flaws is the first step to changing them. So there is hope.
Who admitted a flaw?
God, this is such a shit society…America is a cautionary tale for the rest of us…Stop worshipping the rich and get them to pay their fair share and make sure they can never pollute the politics.
Don’t you love America? Filthy rich Americans only wanting to be even more filthy rich. A president doing everything to rob the country blind. And what are the Americans doing? Absolutely nothing.
It’s not hell, but it’s damn close. I’d hate to live on the difference.
Literal third world countries who deal with civil war, bombs falling in the streets, and struggle through daily life still have the wherewithal to feed children.
America is literally worse than third world countries.
maybe it also bought them some reduced sentences
This is so dystopic that most people cannot fathom how dystopic it even is
The caveat at the bottom is telling. It strikes me that this incarcerated men knew they had to caveat the donation or it would get spent on SUV maintenance or something.
And that’s another day I am thankful to not live in the US. What a fucking shithole
What do they do with criminals in your country?
They get put into prison to rehabilitate them, instead of just punishing them. They cannot be used as slaves, either.
Are you sure you linked the correct thing?
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
Yes. Slavery was abolished, except for people being punished for a crime: prisoners. That’s why the private prison industry is so profitable.
Prisoners are paid for their labor in the US. How does prison “rehabilitate” any individual?
“Inmates working for state-owned businesses earned between US$0.33 and US$1.41 per hour in 2017 – about twice the amount paid to inmates who work regular prison jobs.”
I wouldn’t exactly call that being paid. It’s more of a pocket money situation.
Rehabilitation in prison is about education and giving people a perspective in life when they leave prison. Just making them suffer will not make them change their ways.
I would call it being paid because they’re being paid, hope that helps
If they were paid $0.01 per hour, would you say they were being paid?
If yes, then clearly, “being paid” is not the dividing line between slavery and freedom, so you should establish how much you think someone should be paid for it to not be slavery.
Yes, I would say that they were being paid, on account of the payments
Hope that helps!
Thanks for the help! That’s very Elon of you.
Thanks for the downvote, really great to find out this place is even worse than Reddit
What do you think the point of prison is, lmmfao?
Criminals in jail don’t do free work for capitalists in most countries.
They’re paid in the US
African slaves in America were paid with room and board too, right?
Just like you. Paid to post.
I wish
So you’re just simping for capitalism and enslavement for free?
Approximately 4 to 75 cents per hour depending. Thats fucking slave labor. A single fucking sachet of ramen noodles requires between 9-12 hours of hard labor to purchase. I genuinely can’t tell if you’re being serious right now so I’ll avoid ripping into you directly and attack what you said instead. That’s the most asinine fucking bullshit I’ve had the displeasure of reading today and thats after reading about how Trump may start WWIII on Monday to protect his ego. “They’re paid in the US” is the second dumbest fucking statement a relatively educated person could make aside from “I voted republican” and deserves to be absolutely fucking roasted just as hard.
Oh good. What multiple of the minimum wage?
The US, is the definition of Polish a turd it’s still a turd. By now though it’s just dog shit.
Prison labor to cover prison lunches for children in debt.
Why do we even have these orphan crushing machines, anyway?
Well if we got rid of it, it would be unfair to all the orphans who have already been crushed!
I so hate that that is a reply given on similar issues - specifically heard it the most with college loan forgiveness. It gives me a sad.
Because only the sound of orphans being crushed can fill the dragon’s empty heart with joy. Collectively, we could defeat it, but it might burn down all the land in the fight…
Also, most people cheer for the sacrifices - it’s not their children, after all.
because suffering is the lubrication for the machinery of america.
Hey, if they aren’t allowed to kill whales anymore, how else would they gather the oil for lubrication? Do people even think anymore?
There are lots of jobs that depend on the orphan crushing industry. Do you want them to suffer?
No one, and I mean NO ONE, ever thinks of the poor shareholders. What a sad reality we live in…
And people keep forgetting those poor orphans. You want to take their meaning in life away from them? Shame on you!
I understood that reference.
Humanity persists despite the horrors
Finally a post that fits the community. Those are rare these days.
Didn’t Marx predict this or something?
