We should all be "poverty abolitionists." "We could fund powerful antipoverty programs through sensible tax reform and enforcement. A recent study estimates that collecting all paid federal income taxes from the top 1 percent - not raising their taxes, mind you, just putting an end to their tax evasion (note from MW: the first thing the new GOP House did was undo provisions that gave the IRS the capacity to do that) - would add $175 Billion a year to the public purse. That's enough to more than double federal investment in affordable housing or to re-establish the expanded child tax credit. In fact, an additional $175Billion a year is almost enough to lift everyone out of poverty altogether." nytimes.com/2023/03/16/opini…

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No, we all should be war-abolitionist. Imperialist Wars is the source for poverty all over the world.
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Well ww3 isn't going to help that.
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Go F yourself, fraud.
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These programs already exist. The problem? Nobody funds them, because nobody knows they exist. People donate Superchat bucks to rich content creators like @hasanthehun instead of funding these programs.
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As long as the priority is to help @hasanthehun buy a Porsche Taycan with Superchat Donos, instead of throwing money to a shelter, we won't win. We are decades behind where we need to be.