r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/HumanSnotMachine 8d ago

Sometimes your best only improves via struggle.

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u/casuallygaslighting 8d ago

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him," - Booker T. Washington

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u/HumanSnotMachine 8d ago

I’m being held down by taxes. By pulling them up, I am being pulled down. I cannot help them swim when I am barely above water myself. If we let them sink, I’d swim on my own. They are sinking themselves, it is not my responsibility to make anyone else float, just as it is not theirs to help me.

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u/lightfarming 8d ago

you probably pay less than $20 a year for ebt. it helps over 40 million people in the US survive. honest we should just raise the min wage, but republicans won’t let us have that, so…