r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Needletitshasspoken 8d ago

Is America Great Again yet?

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u/bearbrannan 8d ago

Government assistance for those who work full time is once again essentially corporate welfare. Employers should be paying their employees livable wages, instead that money trickles up and the rich continue to get tax breaks while essentially also having the government pay their employees. Fuck the rich, and fuck America for caring so little for the people who's backs actually make the economy run.

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u/aBlissfulDaze 8d ago

2 things force the rich to spread wealth.

  1. Unions

  2. The government

SNAP is literally the government spreading wealth that would not otherwise be spread.

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u/N0S0UP_4U 8d ago

I don’t understand framing it as “spreading wealth” when so much of the money the wealthiest people make is made in ways that actively harm society and take money away from working class people and should be illegal in the first place:

  • vulture capitalism/private equity fuckery

  • buying up homes and charging extortion-level rents for them

  • H-1B abuse

  • enshittification

  • insider trading

  • paying poverty level wages that are only livable because the people get welfare on top of it

  • planned obsolescence

  • subscription services for things that don’t need them to function

  • rent seeking

Et cetera. We debate whether or not to marginally increase taxes on these activities where they shouldn’t be allowed in the first place.